Jesse Walker on Fooling Surveillance Cameras
With a project called URME—pronounced "you're me"—the Chicago artist Leo Selvaggio plans to confound the world's surveillance systems by distributing lifelike masks of his own face, Jesse Walker reports. Selvaggio says he wants to turn his countenance into "a kind of a Guy Fawkes mask that could pass for an actual person," fooling facial recognition software into thinking that everyone wearing Selvaggio's features is in fact Selvaggio.
