Anti-surveillance clothing blocks security cameras’ facial-recognition software

Homeland Security News Wire ^ | 06 January 2017

[Biggirl]

Heard this yesterday on the radio.

[Paladin2]

[Timpanagos1]

“Research by Shanghai Jiao Tong University is said to be able to predict criminal intent from subtle facial details such as the nose-mouth angle and lip curvature.”

Welcome to the police state.

[Robert DeLong]

So why not tell the world and make them completely worthless. Yeah that's the ticket.

Of course they should identify these clothes that can fool the software and single these people out, as people to stop and interrogate. That way the clothing can backfire on them.

[fishtank]

"In his CCC talk, Harvey presented the audience with a street scene from 1910, in which every passerby wore a hat that covered their face. “In 100 years from now, we’re going to have a similar transformation of fashion and the way that we appear."

[Robert DeLong]

Is that an actual example of the clothing they are talking about?

[Mr. Douglas]

I’m sure the department of Pre-Crime is interested in your post.

[jonno]

Looks pretty effective...

8^)

[Paladin2]

[Little Pig]

The pattern printed on the fabric is extremely crude, and is monochromatic as well, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to use a screening algorithm that filters out anything that’s not a possible skin tone. Then it can pass the remaining eigenface to the recognition algorithm.

And the cat-and-mouse dance of security will go on. Next will be active countermeasures, with a camera detector paired to a laser to dazzle potential recognition systems.

[Paladin2]

They say it’s a pattern designed to fool a specific face recog. AlGoreRhythm.

[WMarshal]

Maybe the muzzles ar won’t something. Broad-brimmed hats, VR/AR visors, and bandanas on the face for everyone?

[jiggyboy]

[DiogenesLamp]

Phillip K. Dick was ahead of his time.

[gdani]

Of course they should identify these clothes that can fool the software and single these people out, as people to stop and interrogate.

No, thanks. When it comes to the Big Government police state, I'll choose the people every time.

[PGR88]

I’ve read that oversized black sunglasses also work well.

[Army Air Corps]

“Research by Shanghai Jiao Tong University is said to be able to predict criminal intent from subtle facial details such as the nose-mouth angle and lip curvature.”

Phrenologists made similar claims.

[T-Bone Texan]

That was the very first thing I thought of upon reading the title.

I was gonna recommend that movie (cartoon, really), but I then realized most FReepers don’t smoke pot, so they’d get limited entertainment from it.

[Daniel Ramsey]

I want strips of this as sun visors on the windshield.