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There are computer techniques that can be used to de-blur sensitive information, so the expert advice is not to use simple blurring effects.

But in this instance, it’s trivially easy to read the numbers even without any fancy software.

@author, if your reason for blurring was to protect your identity, then you should update that image asap because you’re not succeeding at hiding your number.




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