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β€˜Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?

Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

As facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain’s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend.

Companies have started incorporating β€œadversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems.

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Β© Photograph: PR

Β© Photograph: PR

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Vintage Candid Photos Reveal What Teen Fashion in the 1970s Really Looked Like

There is something striking about looking at a photograph of a teenager from the 1970s. The confidence, the color, the sheer audacity of what they chose to wear speaks louder than any fashion editorial ever could. These were not curated outfits assembled for a camera. They were real kids, in real hallways and real streets, […]
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