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‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Hey Bill, the system just flagged this guy as unknown."

"Oh fancy pants over there? That's just Dave. The automated cameras flag him as unknown but since he's the only one wearing that stuff we still know it's him."

[–] lemongarlic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Wearing this clothing is much more about the public protest against mass surveillance than it actually working