Or like someone in Hacker News comm suggested, use this to track a US Senator for 24 hours, make it all public, then see if they're still OK with this...

Or point a very powerful laser at them

Dude, he just released another one where they accessed dozens of real, currently in use cameras. They didn't even "hack" them, they just used a search engine to find publicly exposed cameras, opened their unsecured internal web panel, and could download and view any footage over the past 31 days, including from the new face tracking cameras that zoom in and pan on people's unsuspecting faces as they walk by.

Truly wild.

You can bet your ass foreign spy agencies are laughing their arses off about this as they track whatever targets they like

It's the "common sense" part of the laws.

A honest person has right to live without being tracked. You shouldn't care how they'll do it and you shouldn't care if they go out of business.

And of course you shouldn't fear to be public about it and demand answers, LOL, the most notable for me personally part about today's politics is that in English-speaking countries that fear seems to have become a thing. Well, because any protest that's more than a demonstration is becoming dangerous and costly.

While literal legalism always helps tyranny.

It's not much different from USSR in the 70s and 80s, "yeah, you can have all your rights, a defendant and all, and correspondence and you won't be tortured for submitting a complaint, and Soviet laws will be followed to the letter, but good luck, prove you're not a camel".

Since USSR and western nations no longer exist in the same time period, it's easy to discard even the thought that the latter are gradually becoming similar to the former in some regards, and might even overshoot it.

Anyway, I live in Russia, here things are for the last few months at the point where I can get jailed for writing even this, just because. LOL again.

It reminds me a little of Game of Thrones, where all the major players, the royals etc all have spy networks. This is a world where very poor peasants and servants are everywhere and many of them, including children, end up in the employ of this person or that person, watching who is coming and going and reporting back, such that one’s movements and meetings are trackable to a minute degree. The better your spy network, the more power you have.

Of course Varys, spymaster to the crown, is famed for the effectiveness of his network, which spans the continent and even across the sea to other major cities.

He himself is a master of disguise. This was left out of the show entirely but he frequently appears by surprise, whipping off the guise of an old woman and later leaving the scene dressed as a priest, etc. He grew up with actors and uses makeup and costume changes to hide his tracks. He can change his voice and gait at will and routinely shocks people by his ability to blend in and appear or disappear at will. He knows how to leave a place by a different entrance than he came in, and knows all the secrets passageways of the castle.

Basically, in a world with no privacy, the world’s foremost surveillance master is a model for all of us in these times. If you want to move freely in public but do so without a trace, be prepared to pull your hood up and when you leave a restaurant, take off the hoodie you were wearing when you went in. Practice different postures to throw off gait tracking.

You don’t have to like it, but this is the world we live in.

I'm pretty sure that the "non entitled to privacy" part was not about getting organisationally stalked, but that if someone were to randomly take a picture outside and post it somewhere, then you don't get to make them take down photos.
Also, if you are creating a scene in public, other get to film you as they get to see you.

This is not a problem about privacy in public. This is a problem of:

• organisational stalking
• misrepresentation of actions
• shirking accountability and responsibility

I wouldn't be surprised if it got found by Shodan, which scans the entire internet, indexes it and is easily searchable.

There's actually quite a few open webcams on the internet that shouldn't be.

https://github.com/00xNetrunner/Shodan_Cheet-Sheet

It's obvious that these guys are fucking amateur hour Techbros, running this shitshow as they have. I don't doubt they're underpaying and undertraining the contractors they hire to install these things.

Install a hardware-frying virus on it

He co-released a video with 404Media on this new dystopian finding today as well.

red light companies most likely use some form of AI/facial recognition.

That was David Brin in The Transparent Society. He has continued to riff on the theme periodically since then.

There is now enough adjacent cctv coverage to follow your approach and exit from the scene of the crime. The rush is that another Flock camera is used to identify, and then make an example out of you or me.

Air rifles are pretty cheap too if you can shoot straight.

These specifically or just Flock cams?

Here's a start: DeFlock Me

Your walk home sounds a lot more interesting than mine.

I heard that they have a built-in catalytic converter with more platinum than cars

So, you’re cool if I follow you around so I can tell when you’re out and can break into your home and steal from you?

all of the governments want palestinian levels of control over their people so it makes sense to me.

Goes to show anyone can make trash products for the government as long as they have inside connections.