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Juggalo Face Paint Disrupts Facial Recognition

There is a rumor going around that one group that seems to have succeeded in foiling facial recognition systems is the Juggalos, followers and travelers to Insane Clown Posse events.


(Insane Clown Posse Juggalo foils facial recognition)

It turns out that famed science fiction author Neal Stephenson has some thoughts about this in his new 2019 novel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel. Check out VEIL:

...three high school-aged girls, coffee cups in hand, gailylaughing 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.

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