CAPABLE: Engineering, textile, and fashion Collaboration, for citizens' Awareness and Privacy Protection

Many private companies and public bodies in authoritarian democratic states have joined facial recognition technology, used for various purposes. This situation is due to the general absence of a specific regulation that monitors its use. There no consensus society regarding ethics this technology. Furthermore, there are many doubts concerning long-term ethical sustainability compliance with law. A problem emerges from use technology obscurity. We do not know who responsible decision automatically made; we how data by those collect it, long kept, can access whom it sent, create profile. In addition, systems powered numerous images collected Internet social media without users' permission: is, therefore, impossible trace origin data. Consequently, any citizen could be classified, most likely discriminated against, become victim an algorithm. The boundary between security control decidedly blurred: cameras respect privacy individuals often harm human rights when they discriminate, accuse, power, manipulate people. From discussion on rights, was born first desire awareness, particular these technologies possible issues linked them. Secondly, will product would spokesperson concerns allow citizens protect themselves. On basis, collaboration fashion, engineering, textile has developed produce fabric then garments, which confuse real-time. technological innovation aims system capable generating adversarial knitted patches capture biometric By integrating algorithm into their jacquard motifs, garments prevent wearers being identified, preserving privacy. made computerized knitting machines. Compared printed image, knitwear acquires texture, durability, wearability, practicability. allows modifying single yarn material based results performance want obtain. These fabrics been tested Yolo, fastest advanced real-time object recognition. project New York 2019; experiments machines were carried out at Politecnico di Milano January 2020. workshops Shenkar College Tel Aviv. February 8, 2021, patent industrial process filed, patronage Milano. Today, research thematics within Ph.D. combines human-centric design engineering.