Invisibility Glasses: Facebook Can’t See You
Slip on a pair of new invisibility glasses at a party, and in theory, Facebook won’t be able to recognize you the next day when photos show up online. The glasses won’t make you invisible in real life, but they’re designed to thwart facial recognition software. “We were kind of toying with how people might protect themselves potentially from being recognized when they don’t want to be recognized,” says Tony Anscombe, “security evangelist” for AVG Technologies, which developed a prototype version of the glasses at the company’s innovation lab in Amsterdam. “Maybe it’s in the background of someone else’s picture at a bar, or maybe it’s a Streetview car going by you and taking pictures that might be included in maps,” he says. “We started looking at how people could protect themselves, and what would be required from a technology standpoint.”
