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Adversarial images on clothing to combat AI facial recognition without covering the face (petapixel.com)

submitted 2 months ago by listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] strawberry@kbin.run 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

can't they still id you with a mask? apples face id can work with a mask. though I suppose that has depth data too

[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Almost certainly. The facial ID is good enough that US customs didn’t even want to see my passport. Just a photo was enough to let me back in the country. I even significantly changed my hair between departure and arrival. Shit is scary.