Attention: You are using an outdated browser, device or you do not have the latest version of JavaScript downloaded and so this website may not work as expected. Please download the latest software or switch device to avoid further issues.

News > Attacks & Threats > Can Clothes Make You Invisible to Facial Recognition?

Can Clothes Make You Invisible to Facial Recognition?

Does life feel Orwellian sometimes? One researcher has a solution for you: graphic tees that confuse the neural networks in surveillance cameras.

About 10 years ago, an app developer named Hoan Ton-That scraped your social media photos. You didn't know it at the time, but he added your photos to a database, and used it to build a facial recognition platform called "Clearview AI." Your face has been in his database ever since.

In the years since, Clearview has only collected billions more photos, attracted investment from plutocrats, and been rewarded with multimillion-dollar contracts from law enforcement agencies across America like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). More here

Similar Stories

A large-scale scam operation impersonating Microsoft uses a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian organization and abuses thousands of Cloudflare links. More...

Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and others moved swiftly to block the affected certificates from the Indian CA, t… More...

A developer's GitHub account that was compromised several months earlier was used to push malicious code to unsuspecting… More...

Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry… More...

A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, includin… More...

Have your say

 

News Categories

A large-scale scam operation impersonating Microsoft uses a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian organization and abuses thousands of Cloudflare links. More...

Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and others moved swiftly to block the affected certificates from the Indian CA, t… More...

A developer's GitHub account that was compromised several months earlier was used to push malicious code to unsuspecting… More...

Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry… More...

A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, includin… More...

image

Contact Us

Security Interest Group Switzerland
c/o Bridge Head AG
Sulzbergstrasse 34
5430 Wettingen
Switzerland

Follow Us

This website is powered by
ToucanTech