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What If Our Clothes Could Disrupt Surveillance Cameras?

Far Out explores the future of science, technology, and culture and how these changes may affect humanity and life on Earth.

What If Our Clothes Could Disrupt Surveillance Cameras?

Season 1 Episode 12 | 9m 23s | CC

What do you get when you combine mass surveillance with A.I.? It’s a dystopia that’s already a reality in places across the world. Fashion designers are pushing back, crafting clothing and accessories that trick facial recognition software into mislabelling a person as something else, like…a giraffe or a zebra. How can you escape constant surveillance? Sinéad Bovell takes a closer look.

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Funding for FAR OUT is provided by the National Science Foundation.