The use of facial recognition software for commercial purposes is becoming more common, but, as Amazon scans faces in its physical shop and Facebook searches photos of users to add tags to, those concerned about their privacy are fighting back.
Berlin-based artist and technologist Adam Harvey aims to overwhelm and confuse these systems by presenting them with thousands of false hits so they can't tell which faces are real.
The Hyperface project involves printing patterns on to clothing or textiles, which then appear to have eyes, mouths and other features that a computer can interpret as a face.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @04:27AM
Ninja garb, or for the advanced agent, everyone's favorite- the birthday suit.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by tftp on Monday January 09 2017, @04:59AM
or for the advanced agent, everyone's favorite- the birthday suit
The birthday suit reveals a whole lot of bits about the wearer. The police is already successfully matching the birthmarks and tattoos to the identity. The Ninja suit may work somewhat, but the true winner is the dress of Arab women - a black shapeless sack with dense face veil. Then the foe can determine only the height - and even that can be adjusted by specially made footwear.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @05:10AM
You trade full body coverage for tactical velocity and automatic triggering of human disgust.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 09 2017, @06:19AM
The Moon Moth [wikipedia.org] or everyday is Halloween [youtube.com]
Did you mean body painting [youtube.com]?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Monday January 09 2017, @09:25AM
Yes, I am happy to see you. Can't you tell?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @03:26PM
Move along. We're looking for a perp with a big nose.