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Mask Company Makes Custom Coverings that Look Like Your Face

posted by martyb on Sunday July 19 2020, @08:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the mask-erade dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for GrandFireWizard:

Mask company makes custom coverings that look like your face:

With travel companies and countries around the world finally coming down on the side of mandatory facial coverings in public, many feel anxious that surgical masks eroding their individuality. Fortunately one artist turned-accidental-entrepreneur has come up with a solution to social hygiene that is as idiosyncratic as you are.

Unsurprisingly these custom 'Face ID Masks' began as a practical joke. With surgical masks printed to order from selfie photos, the company began taking orders on the website "Resting Risk Face.com" in June.

Using user submitted photos the company makes facial coverings that match your features and skin tone – with the pledge to make the wearer "more easily recognisable during viral pandemics."

The result is uncanny. Apparently the coverings are convincing enough to "unlock devices" using facial recognition.

For artist Danielle Baskin the project had started "just for fun".

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:08AM (4 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:08AM (#1023675) Journal

    https://theintercept.com/2020/07/16/face-masks-facial-recognition-dhs-blueleaks/ [theintercept.com]

    https://www.securitysales.com/news/mask-facial-recognition-pandemic/ [securitysales.com]

    It could work for a while. Probably not forever.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:14AM (3 children)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:14AM (#1023679)

    Hmm... then again, if I wore someone else's face...

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @11:08AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @11:08AM (#1023690)

      To not confuse the facial recognition software that the un-named and un-marked, and un-authorized police that are not actually police but fucking Customs agent looking for booze that I have not paid tariff on.. . ..

      So, if I have a face mask that looks like Donald Trump sucking the racist dick of Stephen Miller, will I get in trouble? Or will it just go through as being too realistic to be faked?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:17PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:17PM (#1023796)

        [...] So, if I have a face mask that looks like Donald Trump sucking the racist dick of Stephen Miller, will I get in trouble? Or will it just go through as being too realistic to be faked?

        Yes.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:56PM (#1023768)

      Like Hannibal Lector did?