Anti-facial recognition mask

This type of mask is designed to thwart the surveillance of people by confusing the biometric data.

In 2020 the company Clearview AI sold three billion photos that they scraped from websites to police and other law enforcement agencies.

[5] In 2019, protestors in Hong Kong attempted to hide their faces from CCTV cameras utilizing masks.

[1] The use of the mask can protect those who engage in peaceful protests so that government facial recognition technology cannot track and intimidate the protestors.

[7] One London artist named Zach Blas creates masks using data from many different faces and his company offers a "Facial Weaponization Suite".

[10] At Fudan University in China, scientists are working on a mask which would project dots onto a person's face using infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that are affixed to the inside of the wearer's baseball cap.

German artist Adam Harvey proposed "Hyperface", which would fool the facial recognition software by printing many faces on a person's clothing to confuse the technology.

[4][9] A Polish designer, Ewa Nowak, created a face jewelry product called "Incognito".