Designers offer clothing that can protect against facial recognition
Designers are developing clothing intended to help wearers evade facial recognition systems, offering a wearable countermeasure to automated identification in public spaces.
Why this matters: Facial recognition runs in the background of daily life now. Cameras at stores, transit hubs, and public streets can identify you without your knowledge or consent. Most people have no practical way to opt out. Clothing designed to confuse these systems is a low-tech response to a high-tech problem, and the fact that it exists at all tells you something: people feel surveilled and they want a way out. The harder issue is that individuals should not need to dress defensively just to move through a city without being tracked.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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