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The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how

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199 points billybuckwheat | 5 comments | 11 Aug 24 00:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.021s | 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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1. onion2k ◴[11 Aug 24 07:45 UTC] No.41214603[source]▶
90% of the images would be up someone's nose, so why bother? It'd be far simpler to sync the terminal transaction data to the shop's CCTV data.
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2. com ◴[11 Aug 24 13:56 UTC] No.41216171[source]▶
Anybody know how unique the blood vessels in our nose are? I smell (intended) a lucrative tracking business model!
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3. doubled112 ◴[11 Aug 24 15:25 UTC] No.41216844[source]▶
Nasalprinting?!?

And I thought burning my fingerprints off was going to be painful.

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4. mewpmewp2 ◴[11 Aug 24 19:34 UTC] No.41218751{3}[source]▶
Thing is, everyone will have to do it or you will be known as this one guy who burned off their nose vessels.
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5. doubled112 ◴[12 Aug 24 17:41 UTC] No.41227195{4}[source]▶
You’re right. Are we doing this at the same time? Or who is going first?

The other more inclusive “we”, not just you and I.