{"id":23982,"date":"2026-07-17T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:37:22","slug":"adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Adversarial clothing\u2019: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy<\/p>\n<p>As facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain\u2019s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend.<\/p>\n<p>Companies have started incorporating \u201cadversarial patterns\u201d in their garments \u2013 carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2026\/jul\/17\/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f7a9cdaaeaae1e56b2394c709a2904b778fd8980\/1151_406_4254_3403\/master\/4254.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=21b820797e9e5bb0496afea6faf39fb1\" title=\"\u2018Adversarial clothing\u2019: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?\" \/>Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy<br \/>\nAs facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain\u2019s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend.<br \/>\nCompanies have started incorporating \u201cadversarial patterns\u201d in their garments \u2013 carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some computer vision systems. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy As facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain\u2019s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend. Companies have started incorporating \u201cadversarial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Adversarial clothing\u2019: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}