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What If Our Clothes Could Disrupt Surveillance Cameras?

Season 1 Episode 12

What do you get when you combine mass surveillance with A.I.? It’s a dystopia that’s already a reality in places across the world. Fashion designers are pushing back, crafting clothing and accessories that trick facial recognition software into mislabelling a person as something else, like…a giraffe or a zebra. How can you escape constant surveillance? Sinéad Bovell takes a closer look.

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