Since a long time facial recognition technologies have created fearful debates about its disadvantages to security and privacy. These technologies are proclaimed by piracy advocates to be against ethical surveillance practices. However, there are reports of high-tech garments which are going to hide people's face from being recognised by gadgets.

The news has been reported by The Guardian, that Berlin-based artist and researcher Adam Harvey is working on such technology. The system will try to overwhelm and confuse computer vision systems by inputting false information. Explaining his visions for this cutting edge technology and its ultimate effect on the world, he showed an image of a street scene from the 1910s, pointing out that every figure in it is wearing a hat. "In 100 years from now, we're going to have a similar transformation of fashion and the way that we appear. What will that look like? Hopefully, it will look like something that appears to optimise our personal privacy."

The project is being named as "HyperFace Project" and prints extremely confusing patterns on clothes and textiles. These patterns make the fabric wearer's face unidentifiable to the digital surveillance systems. How does it manage to dodge the system? The fabric presents the monitoring computer with several patterns that resemble features like human eyes and mouth. As Harvey states, the Hyperface technology stops devices from scanning and recognising your face by projecting "an algorithm with what it wants, oversaturating an area with faces to divert the gaze of the computer vision algorithm."

Harvey developed the patterns by collaborating with Hyphen-Labs. In such modern times where almost every other aspect of the human lives are being governed by features of surveillance and face recognition, such anti-surveillance technology will help out people who have massive security concerns. In recent times we have seen environments which have been made highly technical. Facebook uses algorithms while tagging pictures of users automatically. However, this anti-surveillance technology will have to be monitored carefully so that it cannot be misused or abused by miscreants.