Sure, but this isn't a story of people who were making a concerted effort to avoid facial recognition, which the title's wording implies for a little bit of sensationalism.
It’s interesting — knowing that so many major discoveries through all of history were completely accidental I didn’t read it this way at all. I actually interpreted it to mean they “stumbled upon” a way to defeat facial recognition.
It never ceases to amaze me how we can all read and infer such different meanings from text.