By James Tapper / The ObserverWearing makeup has long been seen as an act of defiance, from teenagers to New Romantics. That defiance has taken on a harder edge, as growing numbers of people use it to try to trick facial recognition systems. Members of the Dazzle Club have been conducting silent walks through London while wearing asymmetric makeup in patterns intended to prevent their faces from being matched on any database. Facial recognition works by mapping facial features — mainly the eyes, nose and chin — by identifying light and dark areas, then calculating the distance between them. “But the speed that facial recognition algorithms learn means that you can’t find one design and use it for the rest of your life.

Source: Taipei Times February 06, 2020 16:18 UTC