DYSTOPIAN CAMOUFLAGE CLOTHING
Collaboration with @sergavrr in @umprum_praha, 2019
"The issue of privacy is really a serious problem,
because privacy allows us to freely decide who
we are and who we want to be"
– Edward Snowden
Modern security cameras have become very “smart”.
The moment you get into its field of vision, it is able
to identify you as you immediately. As we believe,
there is a problem, because one does not give tracking
devices consent to collect and process his/her biometric
data. No one asks for one’s permission, but it happens
everywhere.
The solution we propose is a camouflage pattern
The solution we propose is a camouflage pattern
that signals the camcorder that you deny sharing your
"cookies".
Mechanism: there is a neural network which
is trained to recognize the pattern, and it is loaded into
the tracking system. As soon as the code enters the
visual field of the video camera, computer vision
compares the signal pattern with the identity of the
person, and gives the program a command to encrypt
information about him/her or to erase it, as well as it
blocks access to personal data.
Thus, an element of clothing with a similar pattern will
Thus, an element of clothing with a similar pattern will
serve as a kind of virtual mask, privacy shield or dystopian
invisibility cloak. Anyway, it is simply the unspoken message:
"I do not give consent to the processing of my biometric data".
