Blurring faces
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There are many ways to blur people's faces so that they are not recognisable. The easiest way to do this, perhaps, is using The Gimp's 'Smudge' tool. The Gimp is an open source image manipulation program and can be downloaded for free.
Step 1
Open your image with Gimp.
Step 2
Now the image is loaded and appears in a seperate window.
Step 3
Choose the "Smudge" tool in the tool panel.
Step 4
Apply the smudging by pointing to the face and pressing the left mouse click until the face is blurred and unrecognizable. Do this at least twice in different directions for each spot you're blurring so that it becomes difficult to reverse your edit.
Note
JPEG images contain little preview images, called EXIF thumbnails, as well as lots of information on the camera and environment the photos were taken in. When you edit the Image in Gimp and save it this information does not get overwritten, the original thumbnail is retained. There is, however, an EXIF thumbnail editor contained in Gimp 2.2-pre2 and greater. This at least allows you to also blur faces in the EXIF thumbnail.
Unfortunately, the camera and environment information will be kept this way, and may give away information which can be used to identify the camera and thus the photographer, namely you. There are, however, tools you can use to remove this information completely: jhead and exiv2.
The jhead tool is available on the original website and there are packages for several Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu. FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows versions are available on the official website, too.
To use it to remove the data, (compile and) install it, then start a terminal/console window and change to the directory you have your JPEG images stored in. Running "jhead -purejpg *.jpg" can then be used to remove all EXIF/IPTC data, thumbnails, 3rd party software comments and whatever off all .jpg files in this directory. You can verify the removal by loading the image in Gimp again and inspecting its properties.
An alternative tool is exiv2. It is available on the original website as well as for several Linux distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu. A Windows version is available on the official website, too.
To use exiv2 to remove the data, install it, then start a terminal/console window and change to the directory you have your JPEG images stored in. Running "exiv2 -v rm *.jpg" can then be used to remove the EXIF/IPTC data and thumbnails off all .jpg files in this directory. You can verify the removal by loading the image in Gimp again and inspecting its properties. Note that exiv2 may not remove comments added by third party software. As such, using jhead should be preferred.