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Next step would be programmable patches of IR emitters/absorbers that change in real time during use.

Or beanie caps that use a IR laser to target and blind surveillance cameras like in Doctorow's "Pirate Cinema" novel.

There are guides all over the internet (https://urbanarmor.org/portfolio/miss-my-face/ seems rather effective) but I doubt such clothes will gain any popularity any time soon. I'm also wary of the impact all the IR light emitted from some of these powerful LED lights on the human eye; remaining flood-lighted by invisible light, especially late at night, seems rather risky to me.

All efforts I can find seem rather amateurish. Very little light diffusion on the IR LEDs, or even entire LED strips wrapped around oneself as a way to get a bigger spread.

The final step is we all travel around in the exact same black cube on wheels. Can't get bometrics or your unique gait.

Or just not leave home.

I've always thought that surveillance footage gathered using our tax money should be available to everybody. I thought if everybody can access them, they would understand how we exposed we all are as soon as you leave the house.

Why is it surprising that other people can see whose car is whose when that's the point of having a license plate on the back?

There is a difference between knowing who owns a car, and knowing exactly where is and has been. Imagine a public database where you can type in a license number and get a log of every sighting of the car in the last few weeks.

Somebody has this data, but far as I know its not public.

It’s not super-public, but there are ALPR databases available to private investigators, and of course the police have them.

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