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And that, in turn, could eventually be countered by the technology that allows anyone to easily modify their appearance any way they want, however many times they want.

But then..of course, all such services will be required by governments to keep a complete record of a person's "appearance history." Enter the black market, a la Minority Report.

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I doubt it, unless you drop your entire life at the same time it shouldn't be too hard to associate the new face with the old identity.

And then there are other ways to identify a person. Like how they move.

A Scanner Darkly is maybe relevant here too.

For the scramble suit to work, publicly available 'mixing' stations would have to be available, which would work like a black box, you could only surveil input and output.

And exits from your house would have to somehow be connected to those stations, or have your house change locations randomly.

The latter could work if houses were mostly in form of larger modular worldwide-compatible shipping containers. Also no windows, we would have VR.

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