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Cory Doctorow's _Little Brother_ [1] predicted gait and affect detecting school surveillance all the way back in 2008 [1]. Sad to see that come true.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel...

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I was thinking about that while reading; in some ways I think this reality is on a worse track than Little Brother's. In the book, schools were using gait analysis because of privacy concerns about facial recognition. In reality, facial recognition seems to be able to be adopted by schools with little pushback.

I hope we all crawl out of the pot before we're turned into frog soup.

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