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Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Fair enough but then they sell it too... Everything is going to be this way going forward. People need to start taking privacy more seriously.

Most of them will walk into these retial locations with wifi and BT on

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Whoever came up with selling it (if it wasn't sold to them this way) probably got a huge promotion.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I saw the writing on the wall and just ordered a pair of infrared blocking prescription glasses, that should at least fuck up the facial recognition for a hot minute before it gets too good for even that.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Tracking MAC addresses at scale is very hard. It is easier to do faces.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Especially since cell phones randomize macs for privacy. Been doing that for years.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I don't think watches, earbuds and other Bluetooth devices do. Also typically the MAC is per SSID/device

    The reason they are hard to track is that you would need to track thousands of devices and then somehow correlate all of it. They are really only useful if you are trying to target someone but even at that there are easier ways.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Hey, you may have not heard of it, but there’s this thing called computers that do this job without breaking a sweat, this engineering problem has already solved, holy cow you underestimate people‘s desire to do horrible stuff.

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