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Terrified of facial recognition technology? CV Dazzle will help you avoid it. :

CV Dazzle is camouflage from computer vision (CV). It is a form of expressive interference that combines makeup and hair styling (or other modifications) with face-detection thwarting designs.

The name is derived from a type of camouflage used during WWI, called Dazzle, which was used to break apart the gestalt-image of warships, making it hard to discern their directionality, size, and orientation. Likewise, the goal of CV Dazzle is to break apart the gestalt of a face, or object, and make it undetectable to computer vision algorithms, in particular face detection.

Sounds great! I’m just not sure that this look is office-appropriate just yet, though:

A vapid thought:

Could Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” feature finally catalog of all of my photo-bombs? Because I’m not sure I want to know.

A serious thought:

What I do want to know is to what extent and with what frequency Facebook allows law enforcement to use or to access its data repository, particularly given this:

The scope of government-driven biometrics data collection is well-matched by private-sector collection. Facebook, which uses face recognition by default to scan all photos uploaded to its site, states that its users uploaded more than 300 million photos every day in the three months ending on March 31, 2012. And Face.com, which developed Facebook’s face recognition tools and was recently acquired by the company, stated in March that it had indexed 31 billion face images…Private companies are using biometric identification for everything from prevening unauthorized access to computers and corporate facilities to preventing unauthorized access to the gym

Testimony of Jennifer Lynch to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law (July 18, 2012).

Senator Al Franken does not like facial recognition technology