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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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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 09 2017, @09:52AM
1. Yeah, right, Over 40yo, you don't need to fool computer vision
2. What I linked, is the festival in Austria. If you want to see an average body painting on Fatso Joe/Jane models by fatso painters [youtube.com], you need to visit the New York festival of body painting [youtu.be] (my point: age and body sizes are independent of market demand for bodypaint)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday January 09 2017, @10:18AM
And you can get *alot* of QR codes on larger people..
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