What do you guys think about this glasses to use daily to escape Facial Recognition? Worth the price? Does it really work?
- prenatal_confusion ( @prenatal_confusion@lemmy.one ) English45•10 months ago
Relevant xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/license_plate_2x.png
- handygaber ( @handygaber@lemmy.one ) English18•10 months ago
This seems more like an art project than a functional product. Highly doubt it’ll work
- Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) English8•10 months ago
Oh yeah, We’re looking for that idiot in the stupid sunglasses, a tinfoil hat, and a fedora.
- chairman ( @chairman@feddit.nl ) English14•10 months ago
I suppose putting on a very unique pair of glasses would for sure avoid facial recognition. Why would there be a need to recognize your face if u make yourself so obviously different vs others. Haha.
A dumbass camera would be sufficient. No need for complicated facial recognition camera.
- SokathHisEyesOpen ( @Anticorp@lemmy.ml ) English7•10 months ago
That’s not how they work. They’re highly reflective, so they block analog cameras, and they’re infrared blocking, so they stop auto focus.
- learningduck ( @learningduck@programming.dev ) English5•10 months ago
But if majority wear this to prevent facial recognition, they won’t be standing out anymore.
- Mark :debian: :tux: :python: ( @M4rkF@fosstodon.org ) 4•10 months ago
@learningduck @chairman Great!.. so just wait for everyone else to buy these first
- chairman ( @chairman@feddit.nl ) English3•10 months ago
Haha. I am also waiting for everyone else to buy one of these.
- gnygnygny ( @gnygnygny@lemm.ee ) English12•10 months ago
Grab this https://hackaday.com/2022/10/20/render-yourself-invisible-to-ai-with-this-adversarial-sweater-of-doom/ and you will become the invisible man
- ExLisper ( @ExLisper@linux.community ) English9•10 months ago
If you live in a authoritarian country this will just put a target on your back. They will still stop and search you: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facial-recognition-cameras-technology-london-trial-met-police-face-cover-man-fined-a8756936.html
- UrLogicFails ( @UrLogicFails@beehaw.org ) English9•10 months ago
As far as I can tell, these supposedly protect you from facial recognition because they reflect IR. I’m not an expert in security cameras, but don’t they only use IR at night? While they could technically run 24/7, that would burn out the LEDs in half the time.
These are also quite similar to the “anti-paparazi” reflective clothing. If you are interested in these as a statement piece, those might be of interest to you as well.
These seem like the developer came up with the function of the sunglasses after coming up with the sunglasses (after being inspired by the anti-paparazi clothes).
All in all, I don’t really see much value in these sunglasses; and I suppose I wouldn’t really be that concerned about facial recognition with proper masking safety, anyways.
- Shurimal ( @Shurimal@kbin.social ) 8•10 months ago
I’m not an expert in security cameras, but don’t they only use IR at night?
Precisely. And good security cameras with Sony sensors only need IR when it’s pitch black. During dawn, dusk and summer nights at Nordic latitudes they don’t even switch to night mode, showing sharp full-color image almost 24/7—watching that footage you wouldn’t even realize that it’s taken in natural light with sun below the horizon.
And facial recognition is a standard feature these days. It’s become so good that you can have two pictures of the same person, one taken at age 15 and the other at age 95, and it can still say with >95% confidence that it’s the same person. And that’s the prosumer-level stuff available to every Jack and Joe to install to their small business or suburban house. I don’t even want to think about what the alphabet soup orgs could have access to.
I have some experience with Dahua cameras and NVR-s. Their technical capabilities are both amazing and scary at the same time.
- SokathHisEyesOpen ( @Anticorp@lemmy.ml ) English7•10 months ago
Worth the price is subjective. Are you a wanted criminal, or planning a heist? Then probably yes. Otherwise, probably no.
- ChiefSinner ( @ChiefSinner@lemm.ee ) English5•10 months ago
I wonder, could you get them with prescription lenses or would it defeat the purpose of the glasses?
- Quereller ( @Quereller@lemmy.one ) English5•10 months ago
I am always reminded on the scramble suit from a Scanner Darkly.
- Gush ( @Gush@lemmy.ml ) English4•10 months ago
Mate they’re ugly as hell, i won’t buy that shit