‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
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If adversarial fashion goes mainstream, it’s a sign that privacy is moving from policy debates into consumer behavior — and that CV systems will face a live, adaptive adversary in public spaces. Any deployment of facial recognition in retail, transit, or security should assume partial obfuscation and plan for degraded performance and public pushback.
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