How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology

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The day when you’ll be able to hold up your phone and identify a stranger through a viewfinder is getting closer.

Google’s Goggles, a mobile app for visual search, has a facial recognition version unreleased to the public, while Israeli startup Face.com’s technology can tag people’s faces in Facebook photos. Facebook even released a basic version of face detection last night, although it doesn’t have recognition.

So in a world where technology chips away at our ability to remain anonymous, how does one reclaim some semblance of control?

It turns out there’s actually a pretty simple way around the facial recognition technology available in the market today, according to Adam Harvey, a graduate student at NYU’s ITP (the same program that produced Foursquare chief executive Dennis Crowley and that Twitter’s location guru Raffi Krikorian taught at).

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.

How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology - Venture Beat

[J_L]

How about glasses?

[Noob]

Originally Posted by J_L

How about glasses?

This one would totally work

[1chaoticadult]

How about tattoos?

[Dude111]

I reckon anything to make your face LOOK DIFFERENT than the one they have would work......

[Konata Izumi]

duck face?

[MrBrian]

I guess this shows that the guys from band KISS were ahead of their time .

[1chaoticadult]

Originally Posted by MrBrian

I guess this shows that the guys from band KISS were ahead of their time .

LOL pioneers

[noone_particular]

There's always the old fashioned method, a ski mask. Just don't walk into a bank.

[1chaoticadult]

Originally Posted by noone_particular

There's always the old fashioned method, a ski mask. Just don't walk into a bank.

Why not banks love ski masks..LOL

[tsec]

This should do the trick.

[box750]

I've been told by an animal rights activist friend that wearing a cap on the street makes facial recognition cameras harder to identify you, apparently the wing cap shadows part of your face and makes their job more difficult, with the added benefit that a cap can not be considered a disguise.

[x942]

most of these will fail as soon as they have a picture of you wearing the glasses/partial mask. The only fool proof way is the ski mask or a see through plastic mask (they bend light making IDing next to impossible).

If you want to try this download something like Private Eye or another facial recognition program with a free trail. add yourself wearing the glasses and it will see you from now on. Assume law enforcement will do this.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by tsec

This should do the trick.

Excellent idea

[Baserk]

Originally Posted by tsec

This should do the trick.

A whole lot more amusing than the obligatory Guy Fawkes mask.

[noone_particular]

There's always the disguise worn by the diehard sports fans of chronically losing teams.
http://media.mlive.com/news/detroit_...8898-large.jpg

[siljaline]

Among recent complaints filed by EU v Facebook where:

Face Recognition | The new face recognition feature is an inproportionate violation of the users right to privacy. Proper information and an unambiguous consent of the users is missing.

Thanks for starting topic. I do realise some was in jest