{
  "id": 11382,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/17/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream",
  "title": "‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?",
  "summary": "Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy As facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain’s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend. Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in",
  "authors": "Amelia Hill",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "uk",
  "published_at": "2026-07-17T09:00:05.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-18T05:10:55.931Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11382",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/17/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}