Black Hat 2026: How Special Clothing Could Trick AI Surveillance Cameras

AI surveillance is getting smarter, but a new Black Hat 2026 demonstration suggests clothing could also become a privacy tool. PCMag reported that hacker and SecKC founder Bill Swearingen showed how printed “adversarial patterns” may confuse facial-recognition systems and lower their confidence in detecting a person. The issue matters because modern surveillance does not just record video; it…