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By the time you need to rely on technology for personal safety, it’s probably already too late.

What would a body cam show, even if it were live streaming to foreign server? The masked face of a thug sent by the government to pick you up and smash your gear?

I fear such malign force can only be overcome by opposing force - either a foreign intervention or an overwhelming popular revolution that is willing to put its people severely in harms way.

Here is the video filmed by a hidden camera on the jacket of someone being arrested [1] and transported to a prison. So what? There is no rule of law in Belarus, only the rule of force. Who would this guy show his footage? Police? But police forces arrested and beat him.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5oALVCAFTE

> More often to protestors who don't have as much protection and attention. What, if any, technologies exist to safe guard against this sort of thing?

Weapon.