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Posted on 07/17/2026 7:34:48 PM PDT by Drew68
As facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain’s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend.
Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems.
The designers say advances in computing have made it easier to incorporate such patterns into commercially viable garments. Experts caution that the effectiveness of the patterns depends on the surveillance system and the conditions in which it is used, but Nick Tidball, the co-founder of the clothing brand Vollebak, thinks “adversarial clothing” could be on the cusp of going mainstream.
“Anti-surveillance feelings are so widespread that all it would take is for a single celebrity to wear one of these garments, currently popular in the countercultural fashion world, to a high-profile event for it to take off,” he said.
“So-called ‘adversarial clothing’ wins on many levels. As well as the practicality of protection, it’s fashionable and fun, it makes a powerful, public statement that many are in agreement with, it spreads even more awareness about the importance of privacy and it helps encourage public debate.”
Unlike traditional CCTV, modern computer vision systems can identify faces, follow individuals across cameras and search footage at scale.
Recent advances in generative AI have made this type of automated identification cheaper and more widely available to police, retailers and private businesses, an expansion recently warned against by Britain’s biometrics watchdogs, which have called for more laws and a regulator to clamp down on misuse.
Evidence of misuse and that black and Asian people are more likely to be incorrectly identified than white people has led to increasing public concern...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
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As AI and facial recognition become increasingly pervasive, there is definitely going to be an emerging market at how to defeat these systems.
Sure, we can all wear masks but in the six years since Covid, masks today tend to draw suspicion and scorn. And many people don't want to be walking around in public wearing masks because they want to be seen and recognized --but not by the state surveillance machine.
Why bother? They’ll all be wearing burkas soon enough, at least the women will.
How are pants supposed to thwart facial recongition? Those are all readily identifable faces.
It’s not new.
It’s 1960’s hippy clothes.
But then, the wokies know nothing about history.
There’s another approach for masks that don’t draw suspicion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ5Eab3Na_E
“And many people don’t want to be walking around in public wearing masks because they want to be seen and recognized —but not by the state surveillance machine.”
The whole point of being a celebrity is to be seen and noticed - and to somehow make money off of it.
That is why so many - women especially - take their clothes off in public.
But the article is right. There are billions of dollars to be easily made by telling people they will be famous by acting rich and becoming unrecognizable.
Have you seen some of the full facial silicone masks? They would totally defeat facial recognition and stand close scrutiny in a crowded environment.
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Wear a Covid mask while driving.
The idea is that certain patterns on clothing will scramble the recognition software without the need to obscure one's face.
While these look like regular old hippie clothing, the makers of these garments argue they are very specifically designed to thwart the devices.
Wouldn’t those Xray Specs that used to sold through colic book ads in the 60S defeat even silicone masks? You remember, the ones that let you see through womens’ clothes?
Looks to me like it’ll make it easier to recognize.
My understanding is that the patterns distract the facial recognition software. It tries to find facial patterns in the designs.
How about a smiley face on my butt? would that fool it?
Gee, I wonder if the ‘Hawaiian shirts’ I usually wear when I go to town can confuse those spying cameras! Some of them look quite similar to the fabrics illustrated above.
COOL!!!!
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