Getting picked up on CCTV is an inevitable consequence of living in a modern city. And many of these cameras use ever-advancing facial recognition software to identify you.
And it's not just CCTV either - webcams, gaming accessories and smartphones are all capable of remembering your face.
But a groovy new pair of glasses aims to scramble the software by using a bewildering pattern to outfox the machines.
Computers record each person's face as a pattern of different pixels and the researchers behind the creation found that you could mimic this on the glasses.
They were able to pass off a 41-year old white man as actress Milla Jovovitch.
The team, from Carnegie Mellon University, only produced the glasses for a research paper, so they won't be going on sale any time soon.
"We believe that our demonstration of techniques to realize these goals through printed eyeglass frames is both novel and important, and should inform future deliberations on the extent to which machine learning can be trusted in adversarial settings," the team wrote in their conclusion.
Other companies have played with the idea of computer-beating glasses. Security company AVG used LED lights to try and outwit Facebook's facial-recognition algorithm last year.
As technology gets more advanced and companies look to exploit artificial intelligence and machine learning, there will surely be more demand for glasses like these.
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