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"Another reason why privacy could be just a passing fad, terrorism is going to get too good. [1997]"
- Larry Niven
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| 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 Additional resources -
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Compare to the scramble suit from Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly.
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| Spherical Police Robot Rolls In China |
| Vietnam To Have Full Biometric Transparency |
| Simple Way To Defeat AI Face Recognition |
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