• RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Great use of tech and knowledge. Video-recording glasses wearers can’t complain about this because they are sending the Bluetooth signals to be detected.

    We need to scale this idea up - apps to detect the known types of signals emitting from camera systems like Flock, Ring, and other similar mass surveillance garbage.

    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Not legal but if you have a phone or dongle capable of packet injection you could probably deauth Ring devices automatically as soon as you are close enough to pick up their MAC address.

      I assume they still record locally so unless you plan on stealing it it’ll just be a minor annoyance.

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    7 hours ago

    tbh i want them banned or have them big 90’s camcorder style with a big red led making everyone aware you’re recording

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      7 hours ago

      They are supposed to have recording lights but the same assholes that would buy these pay to have them modded.

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    5 hours ago

    All this controversy is showing is if the surveillance device is obvious, people get upset. If its hidden, people seem to be okay with it.

    Like, your tvs have cameras inside your home watching you and sending that to a corporation but some dude with glasses out in public is the line? Like, it makes zero sense to me. People embraced all these video, audio, location and other surveillance data gathering devices throughout their lives but the glasses are too far? None of this shit should be acceptable but if its hidden and it’s a government or corporation recording you, everyone is aokay with it.

  • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    You can’t tell by the giant frames that never fit anyone’s face and the giant circular cameras with a recording indicator? Even if you disable the indicator, I would just assume they are always recording.

    Same thing came up in the 90’s with pinhole cameras. Jackass used them and they all looked like narcs.

    The number of cameras you’re on every day, being surveillance by government agencies/affiliates, should be this academic’s priority. Not the AmericanTurk doing food reviews.

    Ok. Let’s say this app does find the glasses, then what? More Karen’s that don’t understand what “reasonable expectation of privacy” means?