Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems
There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems.
It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater:
“Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said.
Bell, however, said “none of these products are tried and tested, and a lot of these surveillance technologies can deal with a little resistance … [but] even if the designs don’t necessarily work perfectly, fashion is also a visible sign of resistance.
“This is consumers collectively coming together to make a visible statement.”
Without serious testing, there is no reason to trust the technology. And even with testing, there is no reason to trust that a new version of the facial recognition software doesn’t break the anti-surveillance properties.
I don’t want people to mistakenly rely on this stuff.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.
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