'We're going to have more visibility and less privacy' (opens in new tab)

What's the legality of obscuring one's face in public? There's potentially a market in avoiding facial recognition. I'm reminded of the "scamble suit" of A Scanner Darkly.

I'm glad Bloomberg isn't going to be mayor for much longer (unless he figures out a way to overturn term limits... again).

Bloomberg is really an awful being, all things considered. His response to people feeling the government shouldn't tell them how much soda they can have is "look at me I'm not fat, these laws aren't for me." What an adult way to govern. And this whole attitude of "haha you're afraid of big brother" or "wow look at all this magical technology .. I mean I have pledged to do some kind of bogus 'code year' so you shouldn't expect to have any sort of privacy" is just ridiculous of a public official; you'd expect this from some backwater town, not New York. Honestly, his response of "I don't know how we stop that" is just comical. Vaginal probes exist, the technology is ready to go, but I think there is a clear answer for how we prevent government from using them on people.

I wonder how long it will be before camera-smashing takes off as a political hobby. I know there are already a few groups in Russia doing it.