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  • 2019-10-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Does a Video Show Hong Kong Protesters Using Wearable Projectors to Avoid Facial Recognition? (en)
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  • In October 2019, a video supposedly showing political protesters in Hong Kong using wearable projectors in order to foil being caught by facial recognition technology was popular on social media: However, the video was unrelated to the protests in Hong Kong and actually captured an art project created by students at the Utrecht School of Arts. Jing-cai Liu, one of the students who worked on the project, uploaded this footage to YouTube in April 2017 along with a description stating that this face projector enables you to change your face within seconds. A small beamer maps an image of a different face over your own and gives you a new appearance. When the video went viral in October 2019 connected to the claim that it depicted protesters in Hong Kong, Liu added: My project has NOTHING to do with political purposes! Here's an image of the face projector being displayed at an art exhibit: A statement posted to Liu's website explained that this wearable face projector was an art project and that most of the models used for the project were non-working conceptual versions. Liu also explained that these wearable projectors were never manufactured and were never intended for political purposes. Here's the statement from Liu and others who worked on this project (emphasis ours): (en)
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