---
title: "These AVG glasses protect from face recognition"
description: "AVG reveals hacked eyeglass frames to protect your identity from facial recognition programs."
date: "2015-03-09"
modified: "2015-03-09"
authors:
  - name: "Oana Stefanescu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kidco"
url: "https://futurism.com/these-avg-glasses-protect-from-face-recognition"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Facial recognition"
---

# These AVG glasses protect from face recognition

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- There are two main ways these eyeglasses can protect against automatic recognition. The first one uses infrared lights. Infrared is a light beam visible to camera sensors but not the naked eye. When wearing glasses with embedded infrared in a photo op, software will be unable to use algorithms to recognize your face in the photo.
- The second pair uses retro-reflective materials on the glasses’ surface to return the flash directly back at the camera. This means the eyes will be surrounded by a halo of light that will also make it hard for computers to tag a face.
- However, this solution only works with flash photography or if there is a strong enough light source to reflect coming from the camera’s angle.