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Re:Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear t... by hattar on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:03PM (#22838248)
Wouldn’t wearing something like this just make you much more of a target? Maybe I don’t understand these things well, but it seems if I were trying to track people I’d make the very small minority wearing something like this a target group.

Another way of thinking about it, if I’m the only person in my community wearing these weird patterns, aren’t I even more identifiable than I would be otherwise?

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Re:Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear t... by leib on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:14PM (#22838347)
In China police are sent notifciations if undesireable people are seen on camera in their jurisdictioin.

I imagine for those people the ability to move around undetected would be very much worth the garish pattern.

I also question just whether the average policeman would be able to tell whether clothing was designed to be untrackable

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Re:Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear t... by dillonmckay on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:12PM (#22838328)
Only to humans.
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Re:Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear t... by jwilk on Saturday April 11, 2020 @04:59AM (#22840537)
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1105/
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Re:Some shirts hide you from cameras, but will anyone wear t... by vkreso on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:20PM (#22839430)
It's called Streissand effect!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

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