{"slug": "adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems", "title": "‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?\n\nBy Amelia HillSource:\n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy\n\nAs 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.\n\nCompanies 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](/glossary/computer-vision) systems.\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/17/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-5yaw", "published_at": "2026-07-17 09:00:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-17 10:37:02.640283+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["computer-vision", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy", "ai-products"], "entities": ["The Guardian"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems.jsonld"}}