Jewelry to avoid facial recognition cameras

A Polish designer has come up with a radical new way for people to thwart facial recognition technology, with metallic jewelry that people can wear to stay anonymous and avoid being tracked This could prove popular in China's most sensitive regions - such as Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong - or any cities around the world that use Hikvision surveillance cameras Two round pieces of metal cover parts of each cheek and a longer piece extends along the wearer's nose between the eyes to create three polished objects that help deflect software in security systems and public cameras, or even through social media.

Human Rights Watch said recently that the scale of official monitoring in Xinjiang could be way more extensive than previously thought, as public and national security agencies have installed CCTV and facial scanning and recognition systems in as many as 6.7 million locations, such as mosques, Uighur communities, plus airports and train and bus stations Surveillance systems used in Xinjiang are reportedly made by Hikvision, a Hangzhou-based video security technology firm, which is under the umbrella of the state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Hikvision is said to have a stranglehold on the global CCTV business although it has allegedly been blocked by many countries after its ties with the state and role in repressive monitoring of ethnic people in Xinjiang was revealed.

Over the past month, they've also been cutting down lampposts with electric saws and toppling street poles suspected to have facial recognition cameras, it said. . Source