And remember, in any country where these cameras exist police do not need a warrant to access this informaion.

I'm not buying that they can scan pet chips. I think that requires closer proximity than their devices can get. At some point, we ought to just buy high powered jammers that only activate when the scanners are around.

On the othet hand, its still an issue that we can't address issues faster than they enshittify.

And exactly as predicted, the surveillance creep begins its next steps, with more to come.

With everything you can do to reduce your fingerprint from technology, stuff like this just makes it virtually impossible to carry anything electronic.

Be sure to remind your local street folk that each of those cameras contains at least 3 lbs of copper wiring.

Who's up for making villages where this kind of shit is burnt in a ritual fire?

And, by that, of course you mean they'll tell us that already are, soon. 🤌🏼

Late last year a city I have to drive through was bragging they had deployed systems to ID cars based on their TPMS sensors. I made a comment on lemmy some time later mentioning this, and also talked about how I had removed those sensors from my vehicle.

I was immediately inundated with comments that more or less said "That's too hard to do and requires special tools, also your car will certainly kill you once you take them out due to three tires having 36 psi and one tire having 35 psi, and it won't work anyway because your car's 5g connection and your phone so it's a stupid idea and you should definitely not do it because you'd be a moron for doing so."

The fact that I was hit by so many comments that basically said the same thing so quickly, tells me I was correct for removing them. I wonder where those "people" are now?

Oh fucking yikes.

Pets?! My tags are FDX-B, can they actually read them from that distance?! I know UHF RFID is a thing but afaik average FDX-B tags found in pets aren't capable of that.

Uhhh.... if it can do that it can also read the one on your keys for the gym/pool/work/apartments...

Jokes on you, my car doesnt have a tpms.

Sounds like there is a market for devices that can broadcast fake signals then to poison the data.