Pray this isn't legal in the UK, under GDPR i don't think so but I'm not sure
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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GDPR states that saving personal data without consent is illegal and on top you have the right to be deleted and forgotten. I am not even allowed to have a none recording camera sending the image from in front of my door because the space in front of my door is not my private property.
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Can't we make necklaces of intense IR radiation that block out our faces? Or does that not work anymore?
A balaklava and a can of spray paint would be cheaper and more effective.
Well one of these things is undetectable to the naked eye and the other is a costume for being arrested
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This is what I want. To be able to put on a hat and sunglasses and have it obscure me.
Oh!!! Or suits like in A Scanner Darkly!!!
Not for nefarious reasons, I'm pretty boring. It's the principle of the thing.
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Yall gonna stop paying companies so you can't help build the surveillance state? No? Awesome...
walk fast, carry stickers
The problem is Amazon has this. I don lt care if my neighbors do this. But random corporations should not be involved.
I really don't care what Amazon does with Ring's facial recognition. The populace doesnt give a fuck and trust me, I tried to give a damn but its like going up against a tide of stupidity that keeps smashing. No one bats an eye with Costco/WalMart/Target facial recognition software, let alone caring enough how companies like Apple sell your data or manipulate your wants/needs down to the pervasive marketing tactics that are threading the line of psyops.
Idiocracy came a lot sooner than expected and there is no closing that Pandora's box. I still try to refrain from and mask my digital footprint, but sadly with how how easily our data is passed around like a ladyboy aboard a navy ship, we're doomed
target is a given, they probably had it for a decade+ to catch shoplifters who hit multiple stores.