• MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Say, if I walk around with one of these COVID masks on my face, would I be able to consider myself safe from these?

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      5 days ago

      I think a mask made entirely out of COVID is just a bad idea to wear on your face in general

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      4 days ago

      Depends on what you are trying to accomplish?

      Safe? Yeah, being recorded on a camera is perfectly safe.

      Private? Depends on how connected that recording is. Face masks don’t give much anonymity anymore, in fact, you tend to get noticed more while wearing them. It would not take much work for a government actor to figure out what car you got out of, what stores you went in, etc… whether you were wearing a facemask or not.

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          4 days ago

          You don’t need protection from the glasses. If you’re in public, you generally aren’t considered to have an expectation of privacy. That’s not an excuse to record people btw, but the truth is that even without smart glasses, anyone can whip out their phone, or use a hidden camera to record you.

          What you need protection from, is surveillance networks easily and convertly accessing aggregated data from a large swath of publicly and privately owned cameras. The only protection from that is laws