No no no.

This is fine.

Because you have nothing to worry about if you’ve done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide.

Because mass surveillance apparati are never wrong, and no one ever uses them improperly.

Therefore, everyone who disagrees with me is a paranoid nutjob.

^^^ fucking braindead morons for at least the last 20 years ^^^

Camera surveillance is simply no longer compatible with use in spaces, structurally inviting the general public, due to advances in technology. You cannot physically limit what’s being captured by an image sensor: it captures everything, and filtering (including removable masking) is only able to happen after collection. Which could also mean the data itself, or derivatives thereof, may be stored indefinitely; and could, at any time in the future, be used as evidence against members of society.

The only meaningful strategy to prohibit this, is to physically remove these surveillance systems: so personal data isn’t collected to begin with. Don’t even get me started, about the GDPR supposedly protecting citizens against this type of surveillance: it pushed for modernization of the systems, legitimized the “collect but protect” approach, created physical backdoors for the government to get ahold personal data being collected, and incentivized member states to piggy bank off of it.

But I’m glad the cracks are beginning to surface, and ordinary folks starting to grow uncomfortable around modern camera surveillance too, because that’s the only reasonable response to it.

I am not going to suggest, encourage, applaud and condone arson as a protest, because that is illegal.

Soon on TERF Island:

They’re gonna have AI cameras to detect if you “went to the right gender bathroom”, and if AI decrees that you’ve entered the wrong one, they’ll flag you as a “sex offender”, then activate the terminators posted at the store to “eliminate sex offenders”