I just attended the most cyberpunk virtual lecture held by Chicago U's Sand Lab about how to interrupt and defeat the passive capture of our video, audio, and still images. Aside from having the clearest realization yet that we are, in fact, now living in a dystopic cyberpunk present, a couple of cool countermeasures were discussed that I thought I'd share with y'all.
The software available via the link below makes tiny changes to your photos so that any algorithm scanning those images in future does not identify the person in the image as you. Applying this filter to your photos before uploading them is is like adding an invisible mask to your digital identity.
https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/
Also FYI, in case you had any doubt, yes google and amazon are using your phone and alexa respectively to passively capture audio to direct advertising data and suggested search terms. The Sand Lab are also developing wearable jammers to block these https://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/jammer/
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