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‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?

Fashion designers are creating 'adversarial clothing' with patterns that exploit weaknesses in facial recognition systems, aiming to protect wearer privacy while making a fashion statement. The garments are emerging as facial recognition technology expands across public spaces in Britain.

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‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
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By Amelia HillSource:

The Guardian TechnologyDesigners say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

As facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain’s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend.

Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems.

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