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And they're the kind that do facial recognition and gender detection and that seems a little problematic? idk
i've heard that the light sensors in those things really like it when you point a laser pointer at them.
I wonder how many of them are actual cameras though and not just the veneer of a camera installation as my grad school roommate recounted to me after his shit got yanked. I mean it's a different school but who's paying for cameras like that
I hope yall can raise a stink about it collectively
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/vending-machine-error-reveals-secret-face-image-database-of-college-students/ If u haven't seen this, this story might give you ammunition
i remember joking about schools being prisons 25 years ago. cannot imagine going to school these days, christ.
yea its fucking insane. apparently the logic is that it can help stop vaping??
my high school installed security cameras when I was there
god I wish I had been confident enough to fuck with them at the time
like, don't get caught, but you absolutely have the right to not be under surveillance
you're clearly a nerd (hell yeah!); I imagine you can figure out a way to disrupt this system without implicating yourself, if it comes to that - probably most people setting up this kind of thing for a school are barely competent
