Issues in Digital Media

Avoiding Facial Recognition

Five ways to easily avoid being detected by the cameras.

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      Facial recognition software identifies key features in your face to determine who you are. Theses are five simple ways to avoid such detection. 

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A) A mask. It can't detect your face if it can't see it is the main principle here. By obscuring your face with even a crude paper bag mask, cameras can't ID your face.

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B) Avoid direct contact with the camera. By making sure to face a direction the camera can't see your face, you can avoid detection. Facial recognition software can't recognize you by your hair, neck, or shoulders.

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C) Scrunch your face. Yes, its a bit taxing, and might even hurt. But facial recognition software ID's people by the lines on their face, indents, eye shape, forehead and nose shape, and jaw shape. By distorting these features, you can throw the camera's off.

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D) Obscuring clothing. Hoods, scarves, hats, cloaks. Wearing clothes that cover your face is essentially as good as a mask, and possibly more fashionable.

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E) Tilting your head, squinting an eye, and asymmetrical hair. It sounds too odd to be true, but doing these three things can actually throw off facial recognition software. Hair can cover some of your facial features that such software scans for. Squinting your eye confuses it on what shape your eye is. And tilting your head makes it harder to recognize your head being what shape it is.