Researchers continue to seek ways to defeat biometric surveillance in public and semi-public places. Unfortunately, every idea involves clothing that only looks like home in science fiction movies.

The same is true for the Ignotum project (Latin translation: unknown) led by the German design studio Wertel Oberfell.

The designer worked with a team of interdisciplinary research and industry collaborators to develop a confrontational fashion strategy that eliminated facial biometrics from the smell.

They came up with a black, layered poncho/blouse with electronics stitched on it and a flexible grid of light strips, designed to confuse the artificial intelligence biometric technology viewed through closed-circuit television.

The light pattern caused the biometric algorithm used by the researchers to doubt whether the black-clothed moving object is a human. According to Wertel Oberfell, in some cases, the software is only 33% sure that it is looking at a person.

Ignotum builds on some previous efforts (some of which are definitely fantastical). Like other projects, the new project is more like a statement to companies and governments: stop watching.

Wertel Oberfell is part of the Re-Fream Fashion Alliance in Horizon 2020. The research project is funded by the European Union.

Other participants include additive manufacturer Stratasys, application researcher Profactor, Swiss materials and technology researcher Empa, and Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration.

Previous research on strategies for forcing artificial intelligence to misidentify people has yielded colorful results.

Saudi Arabian researchers have discovered that a person with a disgusting face can fool the facial recognition system.

In Chicago, an eyewear designer started a business selling glasses that can hide people’s eyes and even faces from biometric surveillance.

Researchers from IBM, MIT, and Northeastern University have created a T-shirt that protects the wearer from AI analysis. Bonus: Wired described it as "ugly."

This reaction may have occurred before seeing a biometric camouflage concept that involves gluing a row of black canine teeth to a person's cheek.

It is true that all ideas are colorful, but none of them can surpass the plan of letting people wear headdresses that show still color images of another person on the shy face of AI in the Netherlands.

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