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Not a whole lot, honestly. Wear a mask and sunglasses sometimes.
If you were determined/sensitive you could attach IR lights/battery to a hat that will blow out the image on a CCTV camera without drawing too much attention from those around you.
Gait detection is also a thing that hiding your face won't stop. You'd have to just constantly put a rock in different places in your shoes or break a leg LOL
They also make devices that will blow out microphones in close proximity.
Never even considered this but that makes sense damn. Time to start work on my open source privacy-respecting leg breaking machine
these folks can help and its less invasive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNeeovY4qNU
I hear a lot about gait detection, but I wonder how widely it is implemented.
Maybe I should start walking at an irregular pace like the Fremen in Dune to throw off gait detection. Since it's probably trained on an average lazy American gait I suspect an intentionally irregular gait would completely fuck the algorithm. Of course, if you're the only one doing it you might wind up even more identifiable. But maybe you could introduce some subtle irregularities that most people wouldn't notice in person but a computer would pick up.
This laughably does not work unless you're only walking at night under very specific circumstances.
What doesn't?
Nothing. Simple.
Everything you're describing is terribly inaccurate.
LOL good thing you showed up to tell us absolutely nothing