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How do you even protect yourself and your kids from this? Maybe I can mask up, but I can't expect my partner or her kids to do the same.
There are already cameras everywhere. As you walk down the street you're probably on and average of 3 ring cameras at any time. Cars have cameras, stores have lots of cameras (the fake ones you see, and the real hidden ones). There have been pen cameras and tie clip cameras for decades. Glasses cameras aren't really a big step.
Apparently quite a few people are developing ways to defect facial recognition https://www.stratecta.exchange/fashion-that-can-beat-facial-recognition-systems/
I was pleasantly surprised to find out Zenni now offers a near infrared blocking coating for their glasses.
are the prices from Capable a joke? who thefuck pays $6-700 for a pair of joggers or sweater. privacy wear should be affordable, not a luxury. it’s the wealthy class that’s making this a problem in the first place
Has Zenni gotten rid of the polarized lenses? I checked a few sunglasses and couldn't configure them with polarized lenses....
If you’re wanting to block IR maybe look for a pair that uses the Zenni ID Guard thing? Edit: just double checked and that’s where the option is now.
How does this "anti-papparazi" thing work?
Read the linked article. It goes through a lot methods.
I did read it but still can't grasp it.
reflective particles in the garment nullify flash photography by fucking with the exposure to wash out other elements of the subject
here's an example photo of Trevor Noah wearing one of these scarves without and with flash:
So it only works with flash on. Not that helpful, then?
yes but these are designed to deter a specific type of intrusion from paparazzi, hence their popularity with celebrities. if it was effective at all times, it would be blinding to the naked eye, which would limit its usefulness to most people.
If someone were to take a picture of me without flash, the scarf would lose their effect. I believe the glasses won't use flash.
if you're looking to evade passive facial detection by smart glasses, a facial covering like a surgical mask is probably the lowest profile solution, followed by those bulky IR-proof glasses like what Reflectacles sells. maybe a combination of both but at some point it becomes conspicuous to have your face covered so fully all the time, not to mention impractical for socialization.
Plus I also have to wear actual glasses, and I'd have to use either the IR glasses either my glasses.
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This is going to be so illegal in EU
I can't get facebook off my phone. I can put the app to sleep but it's always going to be there. It's such an invasion of privacy but I don't know how to deal with it.
adb commands
Some manufacturers mark bundled crap as essential system apps you need root to get rid of, but usually you can disable them which effectively uninstalls it in every other way except it will still take storage space. I wonder if your ROM just used the word "sleep" for that functionality?
Get a different phone
Can you use ADB to remove the app? Look it up
It's not an android so I don't think so.
It's not an android and it's not iOS, what operating system are you running?
Huawei maybe? otherwise I don't see how this would be a thing.
Only predators buy those glasses.
I support smart glasses. Not from meta or Google or whatever the fuck.
The more cameras we point at cops and people in power, the better.
The moment an open-source privacy focused set of frames exist, I'm buying it.
I agree with your premise, but only if it's stored locally and not sent to a corporation, who is likely going to share videos that help to convict other people of crimes but not allow access to video that shows cops doing something wrong.
But also, there should be a legal requirement to have a light visible when recording. If you're found violating this, it should at least be a sizable criminal offense.
It should have to light up when recording. Like, at a hardware level.
Surveillance at critical points like arrests seems important in order to have basic accountability. Surveillance all the time if you know it or not is more of a slippery slope.
Have a light that beams out from beside the sensor through the same lense, no way to cover it without blocking the camera
Have a visible dot shutter that closes when it's not recording,
Require you to touch the temple on the frame the whole time it's recording.
There are ways
Now I envision cops just straight up jacking people's Rx glasses under suspicion of being recorded, like they do with phones already.
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