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
They don’t have a lot of technical details but essentially what these do is try to look maximally like ‘eyes’ or whatever other targets are used by facial recognition to some AI model.
They have to choose which model(s) to train against and there is no guarantee that the same output would fool a differently trained model.
The IR LED dazzlers should work against anything that is using IR as they work by overloading the sensor. The issue is that most cameras are not using IR in most conditions and will switch to visible wavelengths with enough light.
You could technically do the same thing with visible lights, but you’re going to annoy people if you’re walking around in a hoodie ringed with 1,000 lumen LEDs.
They don’t have a lot of technical details but essentially what these do is try to look maximally like ‘eyes’ or whatever other targets are used by facial recognition to some AI model.
They have to choose which model(s) to train against and there is no guarantee that the same output would fool a differently trained model.
The IR LED dazzlers should work against anything that is using IR as they work by overloading the sensor. The issue is that most cameras are not using IR in most conditions and will switch to visible wavelengths with enough light.
You could technically do the same thing with visible lights, but you’re going to annoy people if you’re walking around in a hoodie ringed with 1,000 lumen LEDs.