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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

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