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Unidentified Halo, an anti-surveillance wearable project

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Post by beached_whale »

bondant wrote: post #80
beached_whale wrote: post #31

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It is illegal for license plates in some places. But I cannot see a free country doing that for people walking or even people inside vehicals.

Well I don't know if you would consider France a free country or not, but it is illegal to hide your face in public space in France (unless it's for medical reasons or for a special event and so on). So I guess hiding your face from the face recognition system would be also illegal. https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F21613

I would say it’s a law that violates what is generally a freedom of expression.

Re: Unidentified Halo, an anti-surveillance wearable project

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Post by walterbell »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #94
walterbell wrote: post #89

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For the young'uns in the audience, is there a good primer on defense against cyberstalkingbots?

You need to kill your accounts after a couple months on every service and start over with a new nym. Haven't been cyberly stalked by a bot since the 90s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33757333

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Post by moremetadata »

landemva wrote: post #88
pickovven wrote: post #87

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Is your "privacy stolen" when you register your vehicle? If you were so worried about privacy you wouldn't have a vehicle. Just admit you don't have a problem with privacy. You have a problem with automated enforcement. And yes automated enforcement reduces deaths and injuries. That's a well documented and proven fact. Indulging your paranoia and personal consumer preferences is not worth a single injury or death.

> Is your "privacy stolen" when you register your vehicle? No because these are in trusts or LLCs. This makes it difficult to tie a car to a specific driver license in an automated manner. Many people are too busy checking social media to do the necessary to protect privacy.

>No because these are in trusts or LLCs

That could explain the police pulling me over in my car after work one night back in the 90's in order to find out who was online as this was before mobile phones.

Still, automated systems no longer apply to me, I don't have a driving licence, GP says no.

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Post by TEP_Kim_Il_Sung »

_V_ wrote: post #76
smilespray wrote: post #72

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There's a huge difference between shining a few 30mA IR diodes in your face versus working all day in front of an open furnace.

I never said it is the same as open furnace. I just said that there is a distinct lack of health considerations around this idea. And your commend really underlines my statement. I mean, IR is not visible and if I can't see it, it can't hurt me, right? :-D But seriously: She has 22 IR LEDs. Let's say 50mW each and you have over 1W of illumination in there. If you wore it while outside/at work, it could easily add up…

I have IR burnt streaks running over both my corneas from working near an airfield in the 80s. Those are from diodes, or perhaps tubes.
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