Legal circumvention to facial recognition?

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 15:21:36 PDT 2019


Some Chinese researchers dis just this. They projected the facial features
of another person and had a high success rate. I'll see if I can find the
articles.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:46 PM jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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