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Son-of-Reflectacles: Kickstarting a new generation of anti-surveillance eyewear

Monday June 24, 2019. 08:36 PM , from BoingBoing
Eccentric eyewear maker Scott Urban first kickstarted his 'Reflectacles' frames in 2016; the frames used emedded retroreflectors to make them throw back tons of light, making them highly visible (and great for things like night cycling); subsequent iterations beefed up the IR reflectivity, which blinded many CCTV surveillance cameras (they use IR to paint low-light scenes, and their sensors can be overwhelmed if enough of that IR bounces back at them).
https://boingboing.net/2019/06/24/opt-out-of-facial-recog.html
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