Sounds like a great way of standing out like a sore thumb and I suspect it doesn’t work nearly as well as this guy thinks it does. Some facial recognition software is pretty sophisticated.
It is a long article but this is the first attempt I have seen. If the camera was infrared it could be easier to fool with out looking so odd. A hologram could be designed to mess with the focus of cameras. Lots of things. No cameras in my woods though, darn.
I was looking at GWU with my son And we had extra time. So, we walked around the White House (just a few blocks away). We were pointing and talking and looking at the security.
Around the Treasury building a guy nudged me. I didn’t look up. He hit me lightly and yelled “Hey”. I looked up and there was a guy with a built up hat. And he pressed the side of it and walked on quickly.
While I can’t be sure. I am almost sure that he has the job of taking pictures of faces that spend too much time looking at the White House. He snaps a picture of the face and moves on maybe listing to the earpiece he had for instructions on who to snap. So my face is sitting in a NSA database somewhere.
They don’t have a name to go with it. But if I show up again somewhere they may try to get that as well. For now, they just seemed to want my face to match against other faces.
The NSA straddles the line of being worrisome. For me, I think they have crossed it over and over again. But they seem to stay close to it.
If authorities were really interested in a person all they would need to do is use standard photoshop software to edit the “dazzle” out of the image and then run the picture.