All masks get registered to whoever bought them and if the company buys their special filter the camera can see a unique pattern on each mask that way they can still track the person wearing it.
Wouldn’t be surprised to hear a story like that somewhere in the future.
Unless you get caught, I believe that was Destro’s problem and the reason he became Destro. I realize he’s a fictional character but it’s a valid lesson
It's kind of funny they went to all the trouble. You could wear any of those cheap plastic masks from the dollar store around Halloween that doesn't cling to your face with a hoodie like the picture and accomplish the same thing. Maybe add mesh for the eyes to be super safe.
I'm not sure what this tech is really for if you're still having to wear a giant plastic thing on your head.. It'd be one thing if it was like those anti-paparrazi clothes that mess up photos, except this was a shirt that some how messed up facial recognition or something.. but literally just cover your face with whatever if you're wearing a mask anyway?
If you wear a mask that only covers half your face, AI can still identify you from the other half, and if you wear a mask that covers your entire face, you end up looking like you're about to rob a bank. The mask in the photo is supposed to strike a balance where it protects your identity without making people run away at the sight of you.
Yes, my point is if you're wearing something to hide yourself from facial recognition, you're probably fine wearing a regular mask. You're not going grocery shopping in either one.
I believe the purpose of this mask is that you can go shopping or to the bank with it because your face is still visible but protects you from facial recognition.
Yeah, I do get that. But still, that is going to take a whole lot of societal change to get used to something like that. At the moment, if a bank teller saw you walk in with this, it would be the same as one of those clear plastic masks and they'd certainly assume the worst.
I don't know if we'd ever get to that point to begin with though without a very big change because a huge portion of the population is thinking, "Why would they need protection against facial recognition, unless they're planning to commit some sort of crime?" So that's my point. I am not advocating for face recognition everywhere. It is weird and dystopian to me in some aspects, but for this tech from OP's post to work you have to some how convince the general public of the same thing.
As it is now, a person wearing that is just as scary at first glance as a person wearing a Halloween mask.
Wouldn’t be surprised to hear a story like that somewhere in the future.
Happened in the past and present, too.
Who do you think owns all the VPN services or encryption companies? Intelligence agencies have been known to force those companies to play ball, and keep them quiet with gag orders.
And again, kgb lover hides behind “caring for children”
Buddy, dont even try it, I live in Russia, I know what face recognition is and what for is implemented
To be sarcastic you must have something separating your statement of parody from what someone saying the same thing genuinely would say. Right now, someone who actually believes this would say the exact same thing with no changes in word form, structure or message. This doesn't qualify as sarcasm.
I always wondered if the anti-government zealots felt conflicted about wearing medical masks, since it was mandated by the government, but they help block image recognition.
Doubt it. Privacy has been a long standing issue. Ultimately the reason it has become such a problem is because no one really cares. Dont see why they now suddenly would care
Get in on the ground floor! Open a startup, run it successfully for a few years, sell to a venture capitalist for $$$ and ride off into the sunset while they gut your hard word and wring out every last penny before shuttering operations for good.
Doubtful. Outside of a very small group of people, privacy is pretty much a non issue. Look at the amount of people that carry smartphones around with them, constantly use social media, and don't even take the most basic steps to secure their privacy.
The low end of population estimates puts the US population at ~336m people and 1% is 3.36m. If you could capture even half of that market you have a pretty sweet business.
50% market capture rate is basically unheard of though outside of hugely complex items like the iPhone. I think if you had something like 2-5% of the market you would be considered a 'major player'. Sure you could make a nice living off that but I would still be willing to bet it will never become a 'huge industry'.
Yeah this is the cyberpunk gadgets we need lol, also reminds me of anti-recognition glasses I saw a while back, they reflect light in a way or something that blocks out your face as a bright spot (though this looks way cooler)
Spot on. In Cyberpunk 2077, you get an eye implant that scrambles your character V's face whenever you are seen by a surveillance camera. One of the in-game gangs, who like to harvest people for cybernetic implants, wear masks very much like the one above. I'm sure other cyberpunk media has referenced these things as well. Feels bizarre seeing "future tech" become a reality in such a relatively short amount of time.
Privacy tech IS cyberpunk fashion. Movies and games showing a dystopia future tend to have masks as fashion accessories, but the purpose is twofold. Hide your identity, and purify the very poor air quality. Plus, they look cool
I don't think I've seen any cyberpunk concept/story that wasn't also dystopian. The entire concept seems like a sub-branch of dystopia to me, derived from poor/oppressed/shunned part of a totalitarian/aristocrat/corporate society trying to fend themselves with scraps.
We had cyberpunk fashion in 2020. Makeshift masks, contraptions to keep people at a distance, tools to grab or hold objects without really touching them etc.
There's a Judge Dredd story about this sort of thing from the late 70s
Perps start getting surgery to give them totally blank faces & it becomes a fashion trend, IIRR.
Also here in Birmingham UK about 10-15 years ago I saw lots of ppl wearing a tinsel 'curtain' hanging from the brims of their baseball caps in order to 'hide: from the city centre survellience cams.
Just made them stand out this, too few ppl doing it really.
Truer words haven't been said. How dare they make everyone who were potentially unknown viral carriers or people ignorant of not going out while sick wear masks to protect against the spread of viral infections in the face of truely lethal potential thanks to unknown effects on the public en masse! Dictators, all of them!
certainly, you don't *have* to. But many other places also wear a mask for the common cold, because that's how airborne viruses work. If more people work masks when they were sick in general we'd have a much lower contagion rate for literally everything. But no, you just want to open up more avenues for people with potentially life threatening reactions to the virus to be that much more exposed to it all because you can't handle a little extra effort. Should I add the throw away of "if Furries can do it without complaint, why can't you?" Or for that matter the entire nations worth of people that already do this sort of thing out of common practice. But don't worry, you're the big strong independent one whose able to flex their defiance in such a profound way!
Oh for sure, I grew up in the outdoors. But science is science, and even if you eat nothing but dirt pies and live in filth to have the best immune system in the world, not everyone else does. Nor do they have the same ability to combat illness as you do. Which is the point, the mask doesn't help you. Especially since you likely didn't get the actual medical grade and viral rated masks. They're for other people not to breathe your exhales that can carry the disease; regardless of your own health. Which was also the point of the 6ft stuff. Closer than that and you're regularly breathing other people's breathes. And that's with a fabric mask of any kind covering everyone's mouth. Which I think you can understand why airborne disease is so communicable.
Me neither. I did get the week long "can't get out of bed" once of the three times I had it. But my buddy has lost his sense of taste almost entirely, and unfortunately in such the way that to his own description "I can only eat this specific brand of yogurt for pleasure now because I have to fight back vomiting as literally everything else taste like actual shit." And that's not including cousins in my extended family that died from it two weeks after being some of the healthiest people I knew.
Idk about target, but that requires Walmart actually giving a shit about theft in the first place and not just writing it off as loss and introducing even more locked shelves.
This mask wouldn't be any better, the staff could just ask you to leave for having that mask on and call the cops on you for trespassing if you linger.
Here's the real answer. There are ways around gait recognition, but the best solution is to dismantle the techno surveillance police state, the people who bought it, and the people who built it.
This reminds me of the book Infinite Jest, where in the future people stopped using video phones because everyone used elaborate masks to change their appearance. Basically the low-tech prediction of our current world of filters.
Agree. The ai should be able to identify you by your body shape and movement without needing to see your face. We all have unique gaits and other locomotion quirks that could be analyzed
Really useless. If government wanted to they can track you with more than just your face. Hell even with how you walk thanks to gait recognition. Your phone is a wiretapping device everyone carries on their person at all times.
Wouldn’t this mean you have to wear this mask, forever so that no one ever sees your face? Seems kinda pointless to the people it would matter most to, who’s faces are well known lol
Facial recognition isn't a modern problem, it's a 5 years ago problem we've moved past. Now we are at the point where ai can just as easily monitor your gait as it can your face.
Combined with ai monitoring your location through cameras and cell phones, your cars gps and traffic cameras, purchase history with clothes and shoes, your face is just one more thing for it to add to a pile of things it can use to identify you.
A more popular version of this is to just wear a regular hat, but install IR lights in the brim. It effectively blinds the camera when it's looking in your direction.
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Modern problems require modern solutions.