So I had researched it a while ago and don’t recall having found anything effective and non-suspicious to protect from public camera mass survaillence in cities and the like. Is there anything that is a good option for that yet, and if so, could you point me toward it?

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    Don’t forget that when you walk the length of your bones can be measured which can be used to identify you.

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      Yea, but there is a database of peoples faces matched to their names. There is not a database of their bone lengths to the names. That measurement would be done after you were already under suspicion.

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        Walk on the front of your foot, the process require you to intentionally concentrate on your gait which causes it to change

        Not that you can do it all of the time, but it is a way to defeat gait fingerprinting.

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          Just as normal sunglasse don’t fool facial recognition systems, modern gait recognition systems can’t be defeated by “just altering how you walk”. You can read more about it on The Hitchhikers Guide to Online Anonymity. There is this research paper.

          They link a specific device which can fool some systems, but a bit easier (although more inefficient) is just wearing very loose clothes that cover the movement of your muscles.

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        That depends on what gait measurement entails to you. I would think so but Wikipedia says that it is just movement analysis.