On a less serious note, maybe mask culture will re-emerge, in response to constant identification. Personally I would love to break out my decorative gas mask, I'd love to see a computer ID me wearing that!
Then the tattoos would have to be generated in a truly random way as well. Otherwise, an AI like AlphaGo would quickly "learn" which are the tattoos on people's faces, especially if there's a limited selection of designs of say a few hundred or thousand.
How many years do you suppose it will be before "My own car" is about as meaningless as "my book" or "my album"?
Bootlegging ROMs will, without doubt, be attacked with DMCA style laws (if that's not happening already - I hope "your car" isn't made by John Deere - or General Motors...
In Ken MacLeod's novel "The Execution Game", which featured some amateur espionage and OPSEC tactics as plot elements, there was a specific marque of makeup that was known to throw off the facial recognition algorithms in play. I have no idea if such a thing actually exists or not, but if so, it's probably a lot less "Look at me hiding from The Man" than walking around as Guy Fawkes all day.
Yeah, it's funny how people think they can work around facial recognition and yay, they've beaten the system. Facial recognition is not "special". Anything that makes you distinct from other people can be used to recognize you, pretty much by definition. Which feature is being used in practice is mostly a matter of cost-effectiveness.
Indeed, and at this point in time, facial recognition is the most cost-effective and practical way to implement such wide spread identity tracking, which in this case can be defeated with a facial covering such as a gas mask, balaclava, handkerchief etc.
Yes, and the moment it starts being defeated this way on a large scale, another method will become the most cost-effective. The point being, this phenomenon of people wearing stuff to fool facial recognition is not effective or helping in anything at a larger scale.
(And in the meantime, "defeating" facial recognition on a small scale makes you stand out even more as an individual. Normal people don't wear masks while walking outside. Also, there's the XKCD/1105 effect[0].)
Even if people start hacking or otherwise defeating cameras, you'd be able to at least track the blackouts. Hiding from anyone is going to become a real exercise in subterranean travel.
