At 03:23 PM 3/17/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >As things are never purely good and bad, the outbreak of new killer >pneumonia offers some hope in countering the proliferating camera >surveillance system. > >In Japan, it's common to wear a face-mask similar to the kind surgeons >have during outbreaks of flu and during the cold season. The current >airborne infection threat, if properly hyped and spinned (the >sensationalist lust of the mainstream media could be helpful here) could >cause it to be common in Western cultures as well. > >Once wearing a face mask becomes common, the efficiency of >face-recognition based surveillance/identification systems will get qutie >reduced. > >Opinions, comments?
Sweet observation. Ran it through our cluster, got this: 1. PSYCHOSOCSIM v. 5.56: Predicts the faceplate-ization of surgical masks ---"if you're gonna wear one, wear one that shows your personality" -Madonna, 4.2004. A second wave of industrial fasion will yield transparent ones, too [ref BANDAID], however the opaque prints will remain common. Activists learn to wear plain white ones to avoid being identified. 2. INFEKVEKTORSIM module also suggests positive benefit: TSA employees take on CDC Canary function due to frequent handling of others' documents and temporary removal of facemask for ID verification.
