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"I just can't be politic. I never learned how to do that and I don't like doing that. I think it's false."
- Harlan Ellison

VEIL  
  A wearable device used to foil facial recognition systems.  

...three high school-aged girls, coffee cups in hand, gaily laughing and talking.

They all had wearables with large, reflective lenses, and so their eyes could not be seen. From the cheekbones down, their faces were exposed. But points and patches of light, projected by lasers in the lower rims of the glasses, were flashing and sliding all over their faces in a programmed manner that had been designed to foil facial recognition systems.

Zula wasn't wearing a VEIL...

...the Virtual Epiphantic Identity Lustre.

Technovelgy from Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel, by Neal Stephenson.
Published by William Morrow in 2019
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Compare to the scramble suit from Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly.

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  - A System To Defeat AI Face Recognition
  - Simple Way To Defeat AI Face Recognition
  - Chameleon Personalized Privacy Protection Mask

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