Anti-surveillance mask lets you pass as someone else

[djug]

http://www.cnet.com/news/urme-anti-surveillance-mask-lets-you-pass-as-someone-else/?ttag=fbwp

[ipsin]

Has anyone here actually tried wearing a mask in public for any length of time? I've done it for a day on public transit. Oddly, people seemed more likely to ask me for help, but I'm not sure what it would be like if I tried it for a year.

[kingkawn]

This is not protection. It is a creative way of giving in.

[gweinberg]

Title statement is absolutely false. This mask makes you look like an inhabitant of the uncanny valley.

[Goosey → gweinberg]

It's not false. It states in the article that the mask has passed Facebook's facial recognition to match as the artist. Of course we can't know if this will pass a government facial recognition system, but the point isn't "confuse humans" it is "confuse machines".

[hyperpape → gweinberg]

Does the surveillance camera see you as an inhabitant of the uncanny valley? Probably not yet.

The real question is how quickly surveillance systems will get smart enough to mark these masks as not real.