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The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how

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199 points billybuckwheat | 4 comments | 11 Aug 24 00:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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hammock ◴[11 Aug 24 02:07 UTC] No.41213541[source]▶
Add the credit card readers/POS tablets at stores, Starbucks, etc to that list, which mostly have tiny cell phone cameras built into them now (whether you knew it or not)
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eddyg ◴[11 Aug 24 03:21 UTC] No.41213789[source]▶
As far as I know, these are used for scanning various types of coupon codes and vouchers.
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1. zzo38computer ◴[11 Aug 24 05:35 UTC] No.41214181[source]▶
Add a physical shutter to cover the camera when it is not in use. (In addition to avoiding spying, such a cover can also sometimes avoid the camera being dirty that it would not work when you are trying to scan something.)
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2. Nextgrid ◴[11 Aug 24 07:42 UTC] No.41214588[source]▶
That's an extra moving part that will break, get jammed, or will trap dirt/particles between the cover and lens and effectively sand off the lens over time.

The solution is proper, enforced anti-spyware and anti-stalking legislation (so not the GDPR), not hardware band-aids that are trivially bypassed.

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3. katzinsky ◴[11 Aug 24 07:44 UTC] No.41214594[source]▶
The real solution is a better software culture that looks like GNU/FOSS. Such a culture would generate laws like that if a problem persisted but likely wouldn't need them.
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4. mvdwoord ◴[11 Aug 24 13:45 UTC] No.41216111{3}[source]▶
The solution is cash.