Can't we make necklaces of intense IR radiation that block out our faces? Or does that not work anymore?
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2025
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A balaklava and a can of spray paint would be cheaper and more effective.
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I was discussing this on another post, of using a 5w invisible laser to burn sensors, with auto focal point distance sensor + ai camera detection, to render them useless but there is a ton of dangers to doing this.
Nah, Project Farm tested a bunch of doorbells out, most of them still worked surprisingly well even with a flashlight pointed directly at them in the dark.
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Pray this isn't legal in the UK, under GDPR i don't think so but I'm not sure
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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The problem is Amazon has this. I don lt care if my neighbors do this. But random corporations should not be involved.
"One step closer?" Good one. Total surveillance is already here and has been for a while.
This Ring fuckery just makes it even more convenient for ~~fascists~~ law enforcement to find you.
Reading the ring press release, I have to admit the features look useful. I wouldn’t mind a better way to know whether it’s someone I care about before I bother checking. Most unexpected doorbell ringers are solicitors that I don’t want to waste time with
They’re also coming out in December and there is not yet a way to disable that feature for privacy.
For those who care about their own privacy walking down the street …. Unless houses are very tight to the street, you should be more concerned with the higher resolution models also being released. We did have an incident where police asked me if I would check the camera and not only could I not identify the person, it was hard to tell they were a person (the idiots said “oh that was us, based on jacket color”) but my point is that with the limited resolution of current cameras, no one is identifying you unless you get pretty close. And it’s much worse at night. The new high resolution models may change that
Yeah manipulative corporate propaganda makes their product sound great, useful and perfectly safe and normal. Why would you even bother reading that? It's anti-information and rots the brain.
My face is in all the databases, sadly.