The anti-surveillance state: Clothes and gadgets block face recognition technology and make you digitally invisible

Last spring, designer Adam Harvey hosted a session on hair and makeup techniques for attendees of the 2015 FutureEverything Festival in Manchester, England. Rather than sharing innovative ways to bring out the audience’s eyes, Harvey’s CV Dazzle Anon introduced a series of styling methods designed with almost the exact opposite aim of traditional beauty tricks: to turn your face into an anti-face—one that cameras, particularly those of the surveillance variety, will not only fail to love, but fail to recognize.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/the-anti-surveillance-state-clothes-and-gadgets-block-face-recognition-technology-and-make-you-digitally-invisible/

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