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Even with a covered face, agencies are deploying "gait recognition", which fingerprints you based on the way you walk. Here's an article about China doing it but I'm sure the US is as well: https://apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a

also, its funny to me that how, most non-technical people share and complain about all the technological things china uses to detect and identify, and then don't even think that U.S. might have similar or even better tools.

You can defeat that with 4 or 5 pieces of gravel...

Anyone else suffer from writers block because reality is stranger than fiction by a long shot these days?

How long until this arms race results in a real-life version of the scramble suits in A Scanner Darkly.

Maybe need a mask like this to avoid such a tech: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51FFxPARjBL...

Obviously anecdotal but I tested a pic of me wearing a medical mask on Facebook and Google Photos and they weren't able to tag me.

I'd be interested to see how effective the simple "black pantyhose over the head" is against facial recognition.