Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face

The Atlantic ^ | 7-24-14 | Robinson Meyer

[Boiling point]

A ball cap with a row of IR LEDs would be great!, It wouldn’t draw attention and the batteries could be easily hidden.

[Boiling point]

What timing. I was typing the idea as you posted the actual product!

[Mycroft Holmes]

Very nice:

[Mastador1]

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.

[JimRed]

Too many straight lines on that ship. Other than the horizon, some trees and the fracture planes of some sedimentary rocks, straight line are rare in nature.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Dang! That photo is clearly a photoshop job and not the actual effects of the device. If it were, the blob would center on the brim of the cap.

[Rapscallion]

Show me science that says this BS is correct.....just one will do

[SgtHooper]

No need for the glasses, as who is looking at her face anyway.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Summary; When it works against the computer algorithm it makes you very obvious to the people around you.

Choose your poison; stand out in a crowd and be unrecognized by the digital survaillors, or risk NSA tracking recognition and pass unmarked and unnoticed among the teeming mass of mankind!

(You will not be noticed wearing the camouflage, of course, if you are at the circus or Comicon, or I suppose, at any gay pride parade!)

[Scrambler Bob]

M4L

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Does this mean we can run red stop light enforcement cameras with impunity now, wearing this camouflage.

The facial camo shown is a nice start, but really the camp below is far more effective.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nothing new.

[Jewbacca]

Long hair, half in the face works.

[Jewbacca]

There is a video at the link, as well as several reviews by other people. It looks like that.

[sten]

actually, human skin registers high in reds and makes it easy to spot.

once spotted, processing the face to determine the identity of the target is the next step. removing color and processing for major features, eyes, nose, jaw line, ears, all in relative position ... this narrows down the set of potential identities.

[sten]

you also draw immediate attention to yourself as a moving white spot

at which point, the video will be flagged and sent to the assigned agent for that shift

[BwanaNdege]

You need a “hoodie”.

[jiggyboy]

I’d try an eyepatch first, or an eyepatch with a snake’s eye on it.

[1010RD]

You posted a black and white photo of the sea and clouds?

[TexasGator]

“Most of the solid state cameras have their sensitivity peak in the IR.”

Every spectrum response graph I have seen on a digital camera has their peak below IR.