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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by williamcotton on Friday June 12, 2015 @06:15AM (#9704948)
The scramble suit was an invention of the Bell laboratories, conjured up by accident by an employee named S. A. Powers... Basically, his design consisted of a multifaceted quartz lens hooked up to a million and a half physiognomic fraction-representations of various people: men and women, children, with every variant encoded and then projected outward in all directions equally onto a superthin shroudlike membrane large enough to fit around an average human.

As the computer looped through its banks, it projected every conceivable eye color, hair color, shape and type of nose, formation of teeth, configuration of facial bone structure - the entire shroudlike membrane took on whatever physical characteristics were projected at any nanosecond, then switched to the next...

In any case, the wearer of a scramble suit was Everyman and in every combination (up to combinations of a million and a half sub-bits) during the course of each hour. Hence, any description of him - or her - was meaningless.

From A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick.

Published by Not Known in 1977

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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by chopin on Friday June 12, 2015 @07:34AM (#9705206)
It might be simpler to just wear a Burka.

Although at least in Germany this will collide with masking regulations (you are not allowed to mask in public gatherings).

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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by icebraining on Friday June 12, 2015 @08:23AM (#9705403)
Not just in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws

In France in particular, there's a full ban in public places, even if there's no gathering.

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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by omginternets on Friday June 12, 2015 @07:48AM (#9705272)
I don't think the point was that we should all go to the scramble-suit store and buy a scramble suit...
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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by marincounty on Friday June 12, 2015 @09:17AM (#9705632)
No, but we need to keep ahead of this technology, and fight it whenever we can--for those that care? I'm beginning to think most people just don't care? What I find ironic is any criminal with any forethought is going to become a master of disguise--without going to that much trouble.
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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by therobot24 on Friday June 12, 2015 @08:43AM (#9705469)
periocular recognition is also a thing :)
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Re:Facial recognition technology is everywhere, and it may n... by pavel_lishin on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:47AM (#9706195)
I would imagine that were this published in 2007, he would also include shoes with actuators in them that are constantly working to alter your gait; perhaps something that also affects how you move your hips or arms, although I'm not sure how this could be done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gait_analysis

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