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Anti-Surveillance

Meet IRpair & Phantom; powerful anti-facial recognition glasses

IRpair and Phantom are the first-ever collections of anti-facial recognition glasses and sunglasses designed to block facial recognition, eye tracking & infrared radiation including 3D IR surveillance cameras during both day and night. Facial recognition technology is the single biggest tool for authorities to keep an eye on suspected (and unsuspected) individuals; but thanks to […]

The Troubling State of Security Cameras; Thousands of Devices Vulnerable

Security cameras are widely used around the world but did you ever think what privacy threat they pose to us? — Here is a stunning research from Romeoville, IL-based tech and security firm Protection1. The recent Lizard Squad hack which resulted in a lot of CCTV cameras targeted and hijacked by a DDOS attack has highlighted the need […]

Researchers Develop Glasses To Protect You from Facial Recognition

Facial recognition software is cropping up everywhere, so it was only a matter of time before anti facial recognition tech started to catch up. Naturally, Japan is leading the way in R&D. That’s right; Japan’s National Institute of Informatics is now developing ‘privacy glasses’ that make human faces unreadable to machines. An earlier (less flattering and […]