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Spy v spy, It has a phone detector, but will it detect my smart glasses or my nest cam…or the camera secreted in my bookcase capturing my screen?

They could place nearly invisible watermarks that only a camera would notice. Probably your safest bet is to deep fry the image. Pictures of pictures with high compression turned on.

For a wavelet based stamp, you might have to stamp your own pattern on top so it no longer cleanly reads.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187705091...

Lol it's literally just a giant watermark across the screen with the person's name and blocking the screen when the webcam identifies a smartphone...

Needless to say, both of these are trivially bypassable.

I think most of us are more concerned about the potential presence of invisible watermarks, obviously submitting a picture with "JOHN SMITH ACME CORP 2025-01-09" blatantly strewn across the screen will be trivially traced back to you

Conveniently, they also offer webcam-based smartphone detection, tied into screen blanking and reporting.

The fact we are discussing this is a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism.