Yes, I predict when transport becomes completely automated, bicycles will be the most free way to travel (even more than walking).
As long as there is a person with access to that surveillance, it will be used to shame and control people. If England had the surveillance it has today 100 years ago, they would have ousted Alan Turing for being gay long before he would have had the chance to help them win the war.
Or remotely nerf your car if you miss a few payments?
It won't matter if you participate or not - the sensors are a miasma that surround you, and your behavior will be captured and inferred anyway.
The world of Enemy of the State (prescient film) is real [1].
Just wait until we get DNA sensors that capture the air and endothelial cells you exhale [2]. Those are coming too. Perhaps a lot like the ones in GATTACA.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/airborne...
No antenna. No signal. No datalink.
But yeah, no guarantees that this is possible, or terminating all external antenna connectors is sufficient.
I can put my car in offline mode (blue link).
I mean if everyone starts riding bikes they’ll just apply the same tech anyway.
There’s no winning this arms race, the only protection is going to be laws so we should really be putting much more care into laws, the people who make them, and the systems that put or remove them from power.
Gait is one of those modalities that gets rediscovered every decade only to, again, yield no results.
There's just too much noise and variability over time for it to qualify for broader use.
It's much easier to get a detailed image of a person's iris from 100m.
Seriously? That sounds insane, wow. I mean, an iris is like 1cm wide, can you really get a detailed image from 100m away, while the person is walking, looking around, blinking etc.?
EDIT: I mean in the context of surveillance, I can imagine that a dedicated photographer could get such a picture with a fancy camera, but we're talking about 24/7 video surveillance.
I assumed there would be an appropriate setup for that.
In any case systems collecting iris data en masse from 6m were available a decade ago. Ultimately it's just a photo in near infrared, nothing fancy.
The whole reason why this even works is that the iris as a modality has an unrivaled 240+ bits of entropy, so even partial or blurred images yield enough information to identify a person(requiring 60bits at most).
On top of that it's an extremely stable feature. Shabrat Gula was famously identified after almost 20 years, despite being a child when her photo was taken.
https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~az/lectures/est/iris.pdf
By far the largest database of irises is the one created by India’s Unique Identification Authority, with more than a billion people enrolled:
https://www.irisid.com/indian-national-identity-program-tops...
Surely the value of gait over iris would be that you don’t need ridiculously specialized sensors right? Can use (hypothetically, I guess) a bunch of CCTV sending that’s already out there.
Samsung used to put them in their phones and they seem to have been using just one frequency.
Even better: the wavelengths used are in the range of 700-900nm, which, as indicated by my smartphone camera picking up the 850nm diodes in my Leap Motion controller, are within the range of off-the-shelf camera sensors.
For a decent image you need the iris to span 70 pixels. A Full HD camera probably won't cut it, but a 4k one installed at the entrance of a building might well be scanning irises and we wouldn't even know it.
Although it isn't enforced, its already illegal in most places to wear masks in public though. I've seen exceptions carved out for children (because of Halloween) and for people with doctor's notes, but not for cyclists
*does not negate the other ways they can PiD you.
I think that's quite an important *
if you have a phone in your pocket, you're already trackable 24/7
Because of this, bicycles played a significant role in women’s liberation movements.
https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/pedaling-path-freedom