Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the i
You think, “oh cool we can wear animal print clothes and confuse the surveillance state”. And then you read the article and it’s essentially an ad for a company that admits they haven’t tested the efficacy of these clothes at tricking facial recognition. And it’s framed as “this may about to be mainstream” when it’s one start-up doing this.
Preuß, who co-founded his company after reading about the whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about US surveillance in the Guardian, said his designs played with the fact that “facial recognition systems freak out when they see multiple faces at once”.
Is that true? I think that’s true. I’m sure it figures it out.
Then:
“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.”
Consumers you must resist the surveillance state by buying our clothes.
Not relevant to my original point BUT:
You can fight the surveillance state by looking like a trash bag.
And if you want to keep facial recognition software from tracking you, a great way to do that is wear a medical mask.
