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from Eirikr70@jlai.lu to privacy@lemmy.ml on 11 Aug 19:03
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mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online on 12 Aug 06:20 next collapse

You don’t consent by not using one of those devices, period. On top of that, this should be a massive violation of multiple laws everywhere. Of course, corpos will corpo, and bypass laws at their pleasure.

Vanth@reddthat.com on 12 Aug 13:07 collapse

Your consent doesn’t matter (legally) in a single-party consent state. Which includes some bigs like New York and Texas. California is a two-party consent state though, so theoretically these people should be informing each other that they are using recording equipment.

mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online on 12 Aug 17:18 collapse

I don’t think you see what I’m getting at yet. What I said was that not buying one of those devices, among others, is the way you don’t consent to your 4th Amendment rights being violated. Now, if a device like that is usable with a de-Googled solution, as long as it’s hardened right, then at the very least, it shows you don’t consent to the corporate spying. Government spying though… good luck with that.

Vanth@reddthat.com on 12 Aug 20:15 collapse

And I’m saying that in many states your lack of consent doesn’t matter (legally speaking). Your consent is not required if someone else decides to record with their device.

I don’t like it. Just stating that you declining to consent does nothing if someone else records you and gives the recordings to the police. That’s not a search of you or your possessions, that’s a search of someone else’s recording that did not require your consent to be made.

None of this is new, just increasingly insidious and ubiquitous.

[deleted] on 13 Aug 16:13 next collapse

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fubarx@lemmy.world on 13 Aug 17:00 collapse

BRB. Building a wearable that sends out an ultrasonic screech to blow out nearby microphones.

Going to call it “Blow Me.”

Edit: looks like they already exist: newscientist.com/…/2328652-voice-jammer-stops-any…

archive.ph/unmYO

Also, paper with more detail: arxiv.org/pdf/1904.08490v1

hbar@lemmy.ml on 13 Aug 19:41 collapse

Is there a DIY build somewhere for something like this? From my quick googling I’ve only seen expensive off the shelf products

fubarx@lemmy.world on 13 Aug 19:54 collapse

github.com/mcore1976/antispy-jammer

and also

github.com/buildidealis/audio-jammer

hbar@lemmy.ml on 13 Aug 22:29 collapse

Awesome, thanks for sharing!