A friend of mine has to get their photo ID renewed. We are pretty sure this opens them to the risk of being automatically facially identified by the government and anyone who has access to the government database.
Is it worth them trying to grow out a long beard and hairstyle to partially cover their features for the photo ID or would it be better for them to try to be clean shaven and then walk around society with the beard and hair?
Leaving these links.
Can the accuracy bias by facial hairstyle be reduced through balancing the training data? They conclude facial hair does degrade accuracy of FR, but only to a degree.
Also, The Significance of Hair for Face Recognition
But FR gets more sophisicated all the time. I would expect, as years go on, the accuracy loss from facial hair changes will grow smaller. SmallER, but not zero.
This avenue isn’t so open to women or children tho, lol. Maybe the naqib users have the right idea. Just not for the reasons they originally thought. But that just begets France and others banning obscuration garments.