With Painted Faces, Artists Fight Facial Recognition Tech

With Painted Faces, Artists Fight Facial Recognition Tech
Rights campaigner Silkie Carlo (L) demonstrates in front of a mobile police facial recognition facility outside a shopping centre in London, on Feb. 11, 2020. Kelvin Chan/AP Photo
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LONDON—As night falls in London, Georgina Rowlands and Anna Hart start applying makeup. Instead of lipstick and eyeliner, they’re covering their faces with geometric shapes.

Rowlands has long narrow blue triangles and thin white rectangles criss-crossing her face. Hart has a collection of red, orange and white angular shapes on hers.