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It is invasive.

In theory they can do something like "Why do you look so sad? Maybe a Mars can cheer you up!". This can be done while being GDPR complient but people don't like that. It creates a feeling that everything is watching you.

Privacy is not about hiding things, it is about controlling what you want to show.



maybe I'm weird. I put small pieces of blue tape over all of the cameras in my dorm's vending machines for this reason, too.


Kind of surprised people haven't started putting a piece of tape over it, then coming back 8 hours later with a small drill and drilling through the now-blacked-out camera lens to permanently disable it in their living areas.


"You don't look like yourself today... have a Snickers!"


"Feeling good? Celebrate with a Mars bar!"




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