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front motive:

the LED really does blink when the area is illuminated by IR LIGHT

back motive (black thermo transfer sheet on black cloth)

for the human eye, it is glossy black on black, for cctv cameras black on white. see example below.

for both of the surveillance-aware wearables, a feedback channel would make an extra statement. there are various ways to do this.

CCTV:

• the shirt blinds the cameras and so camouflages its wearer.

using either reflective color covered with ir passing color, or LEDs, the shirt could flash up brightly, on the one hand to blur the shapes, on the other hand to draw some extra attention of the security guards watching the screens.

• messages visible only for ir cameras.

using paint which is only visible in infrared light, messages can be seen only by the security guards.

for example urls:

everystepyoutake.com // a documentary about cctv in london
urbaneye.net // the website of a report about social effects of cctv networks

RFID:

while being scanned, not only the read-out-attempt-count is incremented, but also information sent back. here are some scenarios:

the collector: the piece of clothing is a scanner itself, while moving around, it collects every rfid tag it finds and when scanned itself, releases them all. this way, in the near future when theres an rfid scanner on every corner, it makes its contribution to blur the collected statistics.

the faker: a random rfid id is generated on every readout attempt.

the accountant: the number of readout attempts is sent back.

for the surveillance wearable, it would be nice to use classical clothes of disguise to enhance the meaning, to show that the wearer is not going to let someone spy on him:

for the environmental-threat-aware clothing, a more practical style of clothing would be interesting: