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Wave of the future: Company's new prosthetic face will help you dodge surveillance cameras
An activist focused on surveillance issues is seeing the future -- and everyone in it looks like him.
Leo Selvaggio thinks enough Americans are growing worried enough about the omnipresence of security cameras, ubiquitous personal recording devices and ever-more-precise face recognition software that they're willing to wear a rubber prosthetic mask to conceal their actual identities, according to the technology website CNET.
That would make it impossible to be picked up and identified by a random street camera or caught in the background of a picture taken by a stranger then tagged on the Internet. It might keep them from landing in the authorities' files too, if they're part of any street demonstrations.
"We don't believe you should be tracked just because you want to walk outside and you shouldn't have to hide either. Instead, use one of our products to present an alternative identity when in public," states the website for Selvaggio's company URME (pronounced "you-are-me").
The "alternative identity" is Leo Selvaggio.
The company name comes from its product – the "Personal Surveillance Identity Prosthetic" is made from a 3D scan of Selvaggio's face. And it's meant to be taken literally. In other words, if you're wearing the mask, as far as face recognition software is concerned, you are Selvaggio.
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