A challenge to all you techies and software developers out there and maybe you

[Cleita]

could make some money. Can you develop some blocking apparatus or is it available to take back our privacy and still enjoy our technology? I remember seeing a TV show not so long ago where thieves or spies, I can't remember, wore some kind of device on their head that completely hid their faces from surveillance cameras. On the camera their heads showed up like a bright light. I don't know if such a thing exists, but it would be cool if we could get devices like this to complete shield our communications and ourselves from Big Brother. Sometimes, when you build a mousetrap, nature will build a better mouse. We are the mice being baited into the trap. It's time we became better mice, but we need the technology to do so.

[longship]

1. Paging Plague, Trinity, Wasp!

They'd get the job done. Even if it is only in fiction.

[The Straight Story]

2. I posted about the glasses:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023047866

Privacy glasses screw with facial recognition systems
Foiling facial recognition systems that identify people based on photographs may be as simple as wearing a special set of glasses equipped with near-infrared LEDs powered by a battery pack. The LEDs are arranged around the nose and eyes. The human eye can't pick up the near-infrared, but a camera sees it as bright light, enough to obscure the face and confuse facial recognition software.

Researchers with the National Institute of Informatics and Kogakuin University in Japan developed the special privacy visor to counteract photographs and facial recognition software that could invade privacy. Details on the glasses were released late last year, but a prototype got a public showing at a recent open house.

In their current form, the glasses aren't exactly high-fashion. They look more like safety goggles created for some long-lost retro "Tron" fan-movie and would make quite a stunning statement if paired with an anti-drone hoodie or burqa.

Though there's been no word on when the glasses could see commercialization, eventually this technology could be shrunken down into a better-looking and more portable package. Still, the concept isn't perfect. Some cameras aren't affected by the near-infrared light, so the researchers are also looking into reflective material that could have a similar effect. The ultimate solution may involve a combination of technologies working together for privacy.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57590060-1/privacy-glasses-screw-with-facial-recognition-systems/

[Nye Bevan]

3. Here's another sophisticated way to thwart facial recognition:

[geckosfeet]

4. Here is my idea.

Turn all your electronics off.

Problem solved.

[Cleita]

6. That wouldn't help. They still can track you, heat recognition technology,

surveillance cameras and much other stuff. I watch people at the beach live on a webcam when I want to see how high the waves are or how foggy it is down there. I know they are not aware of the fact they are being photographed. Also, why would we want to go back to that?

[geckosfeet]

7. Pheromones too. They have a pheromone database.

[hootinholler]

5. Check into TOR n/t

[randome]

8. I think a lot of the divide on DU stems from misunderstanding the Information Age.

Everything is digitized. The Internet is a process of making everything available all the time and yet trying to simultaneously keep it private.

It's a dichotomy of objectives that has no easy solution.

Sure, you can probably find some sophisticated, complicated way to anonymize yourself for the most part but if someone wants to get past your barricades, they will.

It's the world we signed up for.

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