this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
1359 points (99.9% liked)

196

17065 readers
1271 users here now

Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.


Rule: You must post before you leave.



Other rules

Behavior rules:

Posting rules:

NSFW: NSFW content is permitted but it must be tagged and have content warnings. Anything that doesn't adhere to this will be removed. Content warnings should be added like: [penis], [explicit description of sex]. Non-sexualized breasts of any gender are not considered inappropriate and therefore do not need to be blurred/tagged.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us on our matrix channel or email.

Other 196's:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 236 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

Also don't wear any clothing you bought from a unique Etsy store (or any store you physically visited and paid with a card).

The clothes you wear to the protest should also be bought from a thrift store that you visited without your cellphone and paid for the clothing in cash.

Otherwise, yes, your clothing purchases are tracked, and the young lady who torched a cop car during the George Floyd protests was literally found by the FBI searching Etsy purchase records for people who had bought that shirt.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/lore-blumenthal-philly-protests-george-floyd-sentencing-20220728.html

Other options are facial recognition defeating clothing like this:

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/02/07/cap_able-facial-recognition-blocking-clothing/

Or this:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2496686/anti-cctv-reflectacle-glasses-will-let-criminals-evade-the-law-and-activists-dodge-the-surveillance-state/


EDIT:

But neither of those help when we're dealing with stuff like Gait Analysis.

For help with that, we must turn to the Ministry...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8

[–] altasshet 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Cory Doctorow has a solution: put some pebbles in your shoes, that will change the way you walk right away.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I remember reading a book about this hacker student kid that would do that to sneak out of the school because they had gait recognition cameras. Can’t remember the name of the book though…

[–] altasshet 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh haha yep that’s it! Guess I shoulda tried googling Cory Doctorow first. Thank you!

I aughtta give that another read

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (18 replies)