Automobile Camouflage Against Flock Cameras

Bruce Schneier shared a curious find on his blog — a form of automobile camouflage meant to shield a car from Flock cameras, that is, from automatic license-plate recognition and vehicle-tracking systems.

The author offers no details, but he does deliver a terse verdict: the practicality of the solution is doubtful, yet it certainly looks striking. In other words, what we have here is more of a visual curiosity at the intersection of privacy and street surveillance than a ready-made recipe for slipping past the all-seeing cameras.

Schneier tagged the item with references to artificial intelligence, cars, privacy and surveillance — a set that pins down fairly precisely the field in which experiments like this tend to crop up. The mass spread of cameras that automatically read plates predictably breeds countervailing attempts to hide from them, even if such attempts remain on the edge of performance art.

Source: Schneier on Security