Big Brother is watching, so is little brother, hell everyone seems to be watching what other people are doing. In an era where video surveillance seems all pervasive, and getting worse, inventors all over the world are trying to create ways to confuse and block security cameras from identifying the wearer. These solutions range from make-up patterns that will confuse facial identification techniques to hats with extremely bright infrared LEDs intended to blind cameras. Beyond make-up there is the potential to integrate near infra-red ink into tattoo designs. For the privacy minded, users could embed designs that would change how a camera could perceive their facial features. These patterns would use varying regions of "light" and "dark" near infrared material, to those around you the patterns would be invisible, but when they looked at your face through a digital camera, the patterns would emerge. As an alternative to hiding one's identity near infrared tattoos could serve as a means of enforcing personal copyrights, a readily searchable means of ensuring individuals a means of tracking uses of their personal image. More extreme examples could be QR codes linking to personal pages, databases, the possibilities are almost endless.
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