Privacy

I adamantly maintain that the US needs an entire movement to enshrine the right to privacy to its citizens in the constitution.

I'm guessing it's like this everywhere, but in my country, public cameras also have microphones. I feel like we don't think about that a lot.

i dont know about your country, but in germany its regulated and in public places the footage is only allowed to be stored up to 72 hours

Then you really don't want to know about mesh license plate readers.

They allow 24/7 monitoring of all drivers any where in a city .. in real time

I saw an article about Chinese EVs being equipped with overly-powerful LiDAR for self driving or something, which meant that in essence, they drive about the places burning out camera sensors. This got me thinking - The human eye takes a lot more energy to damage it than the average ccd chip, and a small cheap laser pointer is way more than enough to wreck one. Would it be possible to get a LiDAR unit and pop it on a remote control car or a drone or something?

There’s a group in London that call themselves the Bladerunners who go around wrecking the ULEZ cameras, they use a few interesting methods, but they’re all a bit too direct, such as sawzalling camera poles down. The LiDAR looks like a better option.

I was literally in a CAVE the other day and I looked up and saw "under video surveillance". You can't even escape it 100 meters under the earth.

Yes it was a privately owned attraction. That's not an excuse.

I want to punch people in the throat who say "YOU HAVE NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY IN A PUBLIC PLACE" because like, yeah, I know, I'd fucking like to though.

I feel the same,
to battle it I drive with my sun visors down,
all the time, even when it's dark.

I never voted for these camera's,
and driving with them down is not illegal,
but they successfully block the sight of most camera's.

I started wearing a N95 for medical reasons a few years ago and this may help with the cameras.

I've never done a selfie or posted any photos of my face on social media. I have a driver's license but my country has privacy laws so that information shouldn't be available to any company that wants it. On the other hand, The War Amps has access so maybe stores do as well.

I feel naked without a ballcap. A few stores in my area have the cameras at eye-level. I look down when entering or exiting if I'm not wearing sunglasses.

I never use the self checkouts. These often have high def cameras inches from one's face. This is an effective way to connect a customer's face and their name by way of a credit or bank card.

I always use cash.

I have had them in airbnbs i was renting!

Current landlord has one just outside my apartment and it records audio. Fucking creepy

my mother has installed cameras in every room of her house except the bathroom. and external cameras. they are also internet connected. I tried to explain to her how these things are not secure and can easily be tapped into but she wouldn't hear it

If it helps quell any anxiety, the ring cameras are not made of quality components. A neighbor with a south facing camera said that the camera was there when they moved in, but the lens is so sun damaged that you can't see anything. It was installed maybe 2 years ago. They said that they only use it as a doorbell now.

As mentioned in another post, a malicious neighbor could blast UV light at the cameras day and night for a while to make the camera mostly ineffectve.

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I'm looking into some of the anti camera clothing tbh. But it isn't fully effective, and it's expensive as hell for something that shouldn't be necessary in the firat place

Some random creep put up a ring camera pointed directly at the bus stop near my house. It's technically on their property but it's pointed right at the bus stop it's creepy as hell. Why can't they just monitor their own door instead

At this point nothing u can do but give up. We really should make an open source decentralised tracking system and track and dox literally everyone on the planet. A billion Penopticons in better than one. Let everyone track everyone.

Some cameras can replace your dressed body with a naked body. It's not something I just made up. Wink 😉.