I'm interested in the best ways to avoid facial recognition. All the ways I've come across make you look less than inconspicuous, to say the least. Wearing a suit over your entire body, having crazy hairstyles and looking like a clown isn't really what you'd want to do every time you went to the store to buy groceries, don't you think?
Though I've heard about a method where you cover your eyebrows which allegedly confuses the FR software, looking at how the sophisticated said software is I'd think the method wouldn't be very successful. So I've come to you today to ask you about some subtle ways to at least semi-reliably dodge FR.
Honestly just leaving the city life seems to be the best option.
Though, on the other hand, wearing theatrical makeup seems to be a solution. You will need to get good at it though.
>>5757 There was a guy who robbed a bank wearing a Hollywood style mask and they arrested the wrong guy thinking for sure it was definitely him.
The bank robber was White and he wore a face mask of a Black man. When police saw the footage they went to some random Black dudes house thinking for sure it was him and they asked his mother, showed her the footage, and she said yes, that was her son.
How they caught the actual bank robber, I forgot. But that is always something to think about.
>>5757 >>5759 Masks and makeup are already tried-and-true solutions. But you don't really wanna apply makeup every time you go to buy groceries, nor do you wanna go in wearing a mask, as it would honestly raise more suspicion than just letting your face be scanned, and you can also be identified by your height and the way you walk (even more easily if an actual human reviewed the footage because someone told him a masked guy walked in and bought a pack of smokes).
IMO just wearing shades and a hat (a baseball cap and the like) seems to manage to be both decently effective and subtle.
>>5761 You could wear a disposable filter mask / respirator to cover your chin up too, it's less suspicious than a regular mask since it can be assumed you just have a cold
>>5761 >>5763 >shades
>hat
>mask
Food for paranoia - there was info on how the FR software can recognize you via separate facial features that are visible. Sure, it's going to be more challenging for it, but it's probably doable.
>>5765 Of course it's doable. Anything short of a gimp suit would be identifiable. You can't have subtlety in your approach and also expect to be unrecognizable. The whole point is to make it hard for them to identify you while also looking like you're not trying to do it in the first place.
Wear a sick mask, eye contacts and a Pajeet unibrow. Is facial recognition in open, public places even all that common? Your average security camera does not have the best resolution. So you'd have to separate your disguise priority into immediate variables that can be approximated about you from a distance and then worry about facial recognition where it is likely to be (stores, guarded chokepoints of foot traffic like entrances to train stations, inside of public transport). How will you fake the former though? Posture or walking is plausible, but your height isn't variable. There's also shit like your heartbeat patterns which are very unique.
>>5766 >You can't have subtlety in your approach and also expect to be unrecognizable.
But some makeup CAN make you look like a different person entirely. Like, you go with subtle facial changes and stuff. And it's not that recognizable. You definitely will not stick out.
>>5761 >Masks and makeup are already tried-and-true solutions.
It's illegal to wear masks in public in many places, including many U.S. states.
>IMO just wearing shades and a hat (a baseball cap and the like) seems to manage to be both decently effective and subtle.
Correct. Wearing a beard (cut so it doesn't closely mirror the shape of your face), a big pair of sunglasses, and a hat that can obscure as much of your face as possible is probably the best bet.
None of this matters if you carry a cell phone or engage in commerce with a credit or debit card, of course.
Though I've heard about a method where you cover your eyebrows which allegedly confuses the FR software, looking at how the sophisticated said software is I'd think the method wouldn't be very successful. So I've come to you today to ask you about some subtle ways to at least semi-reliably dodge FR.