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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.
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TOO BAD YOU CAN'T BUY a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin
real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey, The New Mexican, 1988.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @05:10AM
I've often wondered what would happen walking into a chain store like Target or Walmart wearing a jacket with a bunch of QR Codes at different scales on it, made to look more or less like US "digital" camo patterns, with the hope that a cheap Costco surveillance system somehow picks up on them and causes the store's systems to start looking them up, associate the QR Codes with the store, etc. and hopefully cause some unintended consequences in the store.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2017, @08:55AM
But, sir, I didn't know that URL was porn.
Or the previous one.
Or the one before that.
Look, we have to be thourough. Better safe than sorry!
Now, if you will excuse me, I have many more Q codes to scan
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Monday January 09 2017, @03:11PM
Reminds me of the guy who stick ["; DROP TABLE VEHICLES] to the front of his car.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)