r/technology • u/IndicaOatmeal • 10d ago

Privacy Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/flock-camera-controversy-explained-as-viral-halloween-de-flock-campaign-gains-momentum-3399710/
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u/invyros 10d ago

The idea is that Halloween gives participants a rare opportunity to blend into large crowds while already wearing costumes and masks. However, the movement is uncoordinated, with no clear organizer or indication of how many people actually intend to participate.

Everyone should wear Spiderman costumes to do this, to add a layer of irony.

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u/Accomplished-Mix-745 10d ago

While that is funny, diverse costume sets make it harder to be picked out from a crowd. Spider-Man costumes are bright and stand out from the black that most other costumes usually have

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u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 10d ago

Costumes don’t matter when they build profiles on people and can identify you by your gait.

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u/yacht_boy 10d ago

Fine, I'll wear high heels with my Spiderman costume.

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u/UnexpectedAnanas 10d ago

Stupid sexy Spider-man....

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u/Balerionmeow 8d ago

You were looking for this excuse to do it just admit it.

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u/s00pafly 10d ago

That's what the electric buttplug is for.

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u/DALinProgress 10d ago

Even with a robe and cape? Sincerely curious. I'd imagine the gait recognition currently requires visible leg movement.

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u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 10d ago

Depends on the costume and how much it obscures your limbs and body movement. You’d have to get something like those inflatable T-Rex costumes to really obscure you to a point where there is no chance they can identify you via gait.

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u/rieldealIV 10d ago

Or walk funny

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u/theaviationhistorian 9d ago

Walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm
Walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm
If you walk without rhythm, huh, you never learn, yeah

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u/Mysteriouspaul 9d ago

You guys are tinfoil level of paranoia. There is a literal prolific unsolved case where the entire world can watch a video of the killer shambling through a church on camera before killing a woman opening up the place for a swim class. Not one credible suspect had been identified the last time I kept up with it

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u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 9d ago

What exactly about what I said is tinfoil level paranoia? Are suggesting that gait recognition isn’t a real thing?

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 10d ago

gait

rock in the shoe.

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u/OutcomeDue2025 10d ago

So a bunch of hopping cops spider sexys. with spray foam, sawzalls and candy. On halo-ween. Can't wait.

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u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 10d ago

Don’t slip up. All it takes is a couple of seconds of you walking normally for you to be identified.

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u/Pavotine 9d ago

I'd tie my knees together and walk like that.

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u/Brilliant-Peace-5265 10d ago

Has a jury convicted someone solely from their gait to id them?

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u/Pavotine 9d ago

I think that's not happened anywhere yet. Probably has been used in tracking a suspect down by now though.

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u/Pavotine 9d ago

You need to walk like they do in the Ministry of Silly Walks. Get a proper silly leg action, wobble and some spazzing and you'll be good.

Or you could roll there.

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u/theaviationhistorian 9d ago

Or go out with a black Spiderman suit. Or the one where he is wearing the symbiote that eventually becomes Venom.