How to disappear completely? Wear glasses that fool facial recognition

Researchers have made glasses that convince facial recognition systems you are someone else.

Confirming what Clark Kent has already known for decades, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that wearing dorky-looking glasses is a great way to confuse people about your identity. 

In a brilliantly named paper, titled Accessorize to a Crime: Real and Stealthy Attacks on State-of-the-Art Face Recognition, the researchers have come up with a way to fool facial recognition systems by wearing glasses with specially printed frames. “In this paper, we focus on facial biometric systems, which are widely used in surveillance and access control,” the researchers explain. “We define and investigate a novel class of attacks: attacks that are physically realisable and inconspicuous, and allow an attacker to evade recognition or impersonate another individual.