Face masks to decoy t-shirts: The rise of anti-surveillance fashion
Emily Roderick, 23, and her cohorts in "The Dazzle Club" walked around the British capital last week with blue, red and black stripes painted across their faces in an effort to escape the watchful eye of facial-recognition cameras.
The artists took their silent stroll through the city's King's Cross area hoping their bold make-up would act as camouflage and confuse the cameras.
"We're hiding in plain sight," Roderick told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, explaining that bright colours and dark shades of make-up are known to hamper a camera's ability to accurately recognise faces.
Computers have become adept at identifying people in recent years, unlocking a myriad of applications for facial recognition, from tracking criminals to counting truants....
