AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome to America's New Surveillance High Schools
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·December 22, 2025whalesalad
Coincidentally I just watched this Defcon talk on these popular bathroom 'smoke detectors' that can detect vapes and listen in on conversations - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCnojaEpF2I
gnabgib
There was a bit of discussion around that: It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. It Could Be an Audio Bug (17 points, 4 months ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915338
m4ck_
I imagine these will be in apartments soon.
this shit makes me want to move into a hollowed out tree trunk and forage.
whalesalad
They already are in apartments. Also hospitals, nursing homes, all kinds of places. The talk digs into that.
It was a scrap of paper folded into a square.
While he stood at the urinal he managed, with a little more fingering, to get it unfolded. Obviously there must be a message of some kind written on it. For a moment he was tempted to take it into one of the water-closets [toilets] and read it at once. But that would be shocking folly, as he well knew. There was no place where you could be more certain that the telescreens were watched continuously.
- George Orwell, 1984