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I wonder if there is any way to counter that.

I can only imagine placing another matching camscreen face to face onto the source one and sending what it sees to a trusted camera-incapable display. But then there is a lot more practical questions and implications..

Polarizing filter? One-way mirror?

I wonder if there is any way to counter that.

Not buying invasive shit?

Sure, unless everything is invasive shit at some point.

Won't happen? Think smartphones. Even if you don't have one, everyone around does, with all the consequences.

And that's been working, right?

Would we even know if a screen is “camera-incapable”? One day the “think of the children” routine will come for your screen.

That's exactly one of the practical implications I mentioned!

If only that group would consider that its the children being watched, maybe they would think of the children then...

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