07.07.10
Camouflage Yourself From Facial Recognition Technology
Check out this article about how to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology. The gist is that these technologies rely on general facial pattern with very specific composition and contrast of colors.
If you change the contrast in certain parts of your face — either through a watermark or by wearing a strategically-placed sticker or facepaint, recognition technology can’t identify that your face is a human face.
“It breaks apart the gestalt of the face,” he said. “That’s what original camouflage was supposed to do.”
Harvey said he got his idea from studying camouflage methods use during World War I and World War II. His project, CV Dazzle, is based on the original dazzle camouflage used by the military to hide ships in the 1940s.
While the flashy geometric patterns don’t seem like they could obscure a thing, they thwarted the enemy’s ability to tell the make or size of the ship. Similarly, zebra camouflage does little to blend the animal into the background of the savannah. But when zebras are in herds, predators like lions have difficulty picking out animals from the herd. (Dazzle camouflage was eventually phased out by the military as aviation technology and rangefinders improved.)