{
  "id": 218667,
  "title": "Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/adversarial-clothing-designed-to-fool-facial-recognition-systems",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-06T11:04:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Schneier on Security",
    "slug": "schneier-on-security",
    "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/adversarial-clothing-designed-to-fool-facial-recognition-systems.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater: “Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said. Bell, however, said “none of these products are tried and tested, and a lot of these surveillance technologies can deal…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}