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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The cameras have copper in them too. Probably.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Attaching to this to remind everyone that these cameras have sensors to scrape rfid, nfc, tpms, Bluetooth, and wifi ssids as well. They're not 'license plate readers'. They're full suite surveillance systems that'll capture every ID passing by. Your list of remembered wifi connections in your phone is a trackable fingerprint, and unless you take steps, it's being broadcast every time you turn on wifi.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Your phone is not broadcasting a list of WiFi networks it wants to connect to. That's not how it works at all.

    It is periodically (couple of times a second probably) checking the available SSIDs to see if there is one that matches a remembered network on it's list.

    It would be horribly insecure to have a device broadcasting the name of a network that it would actively try to connect to.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Thats what i keep hearing. I bet they have cameras and maybe sim cards too. Along with a spiffy solar panel.

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