  Protection of faces in pictures and videos of people in connection with
sensitive information, activism, abused cases and others on public broadcasting
media and social net- works is very important. On social networks like
YouTube,facebook, Twitter and others, videos are being posted with blurring
techniques of which some of them cannot be recoverable. Most blurring
techniques used can easily be recoverable using off-the-shelf software. The
ones that are difficult to be recovered also can easily be used by abusers and
ther wrong doers.
  This paper proposes an image encryption technique that will make it possible
for selected facial area to be encrypted based on RGB pixel shuffling of an m*n
size image. This will make it difficult for off-the-shelf software to restore
the ncrypted image and also make it easy for the law enforcement agencies to
reconstruct the face back in case the picture or video is related to an abuse
case. The implementation of the encryption method will be done using MATLAB. At
the and, there will be no change in the total size of the image during
encryption and decryption process.
