Legal circumvention to facial recognition?

jim bell jdb10987 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 14 14:46:35 PDT 2019


 On Monday, October 14, 2019, 02:09:51 PM PDT, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
 
 
On October 14, 2019 11:53:54 AM UTC, Steven Schear <schear.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
>"By wearing this mask formed like a lens it possible to become
>unrecognizable for facial recognition software and because of it’s
>transparence you will not lose your identity and facial expressions. So
>it’s still possible to interact with the people around you."
>
>http://jipvanleeuwenstein.nl/

>Cops in the US keep shooting people in their own homes, who have 
literally done nothing ... I can just imagine what would happen to
you walking around wearing one of these masks all the time.  Plus, 
your co-workers would be like wtf...

>It is cool though ;).  Maybe useful in Hong Kong (except I think mainland
China just outlawed all masks)

One possibility would be  tiny projector (looking somewhat like a headphone microphone) which can project a image based on (perhaps) infrared onto a person's face.  Unless specifically filtered, ordinary silicon-based cameras will be sensitive to near-infrared light.
           Jim Bell
  
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