As facial recognition technology gets cheaper, faster and more popular, people are looking for ways to subvert it. Reflectacles, a Chicago-based company, makes glasses that can thwart the technology.
The chunky, thick-framed glasses Scott Urban makes in his Humboldt Park workshop look like normal eyeglasses, but when viewed on a security camera, the wearer’s face becomes a shining orb.
Reflectacles, as the glasses are called, are among a growing number of devices developed to protect individual privacy as facial recognition technology becomes cheaper, faster and more commonplace.
Until they are forbidden by law ?