Designers are producing adversarial styles meant to scramble surveillance cameras

The future’s so invasive, you gotta wear shades.As Meta and Ray-Ban push their Kylie Jenner-fronted smart glasses — the kind that can film your perspective walking down the street, Shazam a song playing next to you and (allegedly) recognize a stranger’s face in a crowd — a growing group of both New York eyewear brands and designers is barking back with sunglasses that block surveillance software and biometric data scans entirely.Translation?“We’re making a firewall for your face,” Nate Troxell, the general manager of Solir Optics, a Glen Falls, NY brand that’s been selling “anti-facial recognition” sunglasses ranging between $70 and $100 after receiving requests from customers, told The Post.While most sunglasses on the market are singularly obsessed with blocking UV rays, Troxell said his company set out to guard against a much wider — and much sneakier — spectrum of light, including infrared and blue light rays.The brand is also currently developing anti-surveillance lenses for prescription specs.
Despite its embedded high tech, Troxell insists his line is more subdued than most would expect.“We wanted our designs to blend in,” he explained, noting that the original technology was developed for cannabis growers looking to block artificial light exposure in their greenhouses.
“It’s not like you’re wearing spy glasses.You’re just wearing sunglasses that have a much deeper function.”Throw on a pair of these shades, and you’ll also be able to block the retinal scans that security cameras use to secretly ID people in casinos, concert halls, and even supermarkets like Wegmans.Keren Rose Gold, a Tribeca-based designer, artist and owner of luxe eyewear brand A-Morir, has also started making anti-surveillance glasses.“I’m not a nefarious person,” Gold, whose brand created eyewear for stars like Lady Gaga and Rihanna, told The Post.
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