Also, are infrared LED disguise devices easily defeated? E.g. can camera installers just add an additional infrared filter to their setup?
Systems also tend to use regular and infrared images for detection too (at least in the case of ALPR).
We need people to care about these things and how the data is used, we need laws for rules around collection, access, and rights. We need to work together towards maintaining the ideas that support western democracy rather than moving towards nationalism.
I worry that instability from climate change and the refugee crisis that comes from that instability will make things worse, along with the current centralization of wealth/inequality issues and rise of more populist right wing movements.
Individual technical solutions will likely not do much to protect you if we lose the cultural framework around democracy.
All I can think of is The Ministry of Silly Walks.
Also, such systems are primarily used by chain shops, and provided by specialized companies. Both mean the data gets shared to multiple entities.
“We got nothing via gait detection, but the intern noticed this guy walking around in an exoskeleton suit so we sent a unit out to bring him in”
;)
The first thing I would do is gather a bunch of data for people walking trying to mess up their gait. Different types of shoes, pebbles in shoes etc. Then include that in the model or even just look for that as suspicious itself.
You're not giving enough credit to the capability of the people that do this kind of work. It is not simple to avoid and the vast majority of people would not even go this far.
How many people communicate entirely over encryption today?
not to be confused with galt detection, which tracks people who've read Atlas Shrugged and took its economic/political philosophy a little too seriously.
A relevant description I heard that I liked was that democracy is a boulder at the top of a hill that was pushed there by the deaths of millions, ready to roll down at any time. It takes work to keep things in that state and to protect it.
if they filter it out, they don't have their "night vision" any more.
(obviously twice as many cameras, or more expensive ones, or whatever, could deal with it.)
I think a much bigger problem with your technique though is... seriously who wears an infrared LED baseball cap? You would be very easily identifiable because that technique is likely to be nearly unique in your store; your attempt to mask your identity would have the opposite effect of drawing more attention to it.
Or at least be a good second feature.
Saturate the sensor in an environment that otherwise reflects little.
Even a small retro reflective logo can ruin a flash photo...
The idea that you will be watched and tracked your whole life so that a store can better advertise/set up the store is terrifying. Honestly how the hell can it be legal?
Yes - your smartphone camera already has one unless it's old and/or cheap.
Also, your LED baseball cap draws much more attention to you than anything else. That screams "look at me, I have something to hide". If you weren't on their radar before being seen in it, you almost certainly are afterwards.
That type of behavior can also trouble you in unrelated matters. EG, evidence of you wearing that to foil security cameras could be circumstantially presented to make you appear deceptive or conniving.
tldr; don't do anything to stand out if privacy is your goal.
Cellphones don’t and take good pictures in day or night conditions.
How exactly does that help?