It seems that while the Constitution of the United States of America contains provisions relating to secularism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... this is perhaps not as clear for the multiple States of the US federation.

This is the problem with the absence of secularism in one state, with the diversity of religions and the cultural melting pot as in the United States. If laws are drawn up and applied on a religious basis, they inevitably penalise those with other religions (or no religion at all) and other cultures.

Countries with Islamic governments mitigate this problem by having only one official religion.

My personally preferred system is that of France and its secularism, deeply rooted in its constitution.

It's pure folly that's at work here.

On the one hand, those in charge of defining and enforcing laws are bent on penalising and criminalising more and more anything that does not fit in with their religious convictions, while at the same time maintaining a supposedly open attitude towards the practice of religions other than their own.

On the other hand, we have a world facing a serious crisis, killing each other over ever-increasing consumption and population, with diminishing resources and the inevitable decline that will go with them.

And while part of the world lacks everything, people are spending crazy amounts of money to have a child at any price, with a profusion of technology.

It's a state of affairs that's really hard to understand for a French person like me, who was brought up in a secular republic founded since the French Revolution on the separation of powers and above all of religion and the State.

It's a dramatic observation I'm making, of a world that is losing itself in its generalised madness and no longer even manages to respect itself as humanity.

Add a form with an "I am not a robot" check-box and marking buses, boats, store-fronts, street-lights... ;O)

I am sick of this dumb (insert environmental bullshit word) excuse of the day to try to pump some funds and divert attention from more imminent and hot crying issues.

Thank you so much for reading it in depth and provide a layman comprehensive summary of the issue.

Very good question!

I remember in the 70's and early 80's it was common practice to have carpets with a special cut-out shape to fit the toilet base and sometimes even synthetic fur on the outside of the lid. This was obviously a trap for bacteria and particles. Another time with other rules.

I feel no nostalgia for this overuse of carpeting in the wrong places, but fact is that we had no worse health, maybe even better health than nowadays. Possibly related to sane exposure to bacteria overall.

The EFF probably has not enough volunteers and funding to expand this to the whole World. Although it would be very useful and appreciated as surveillance is not specific to the USA.

Even in Europe those tight privacy policies are under constant attack and evaporate like snow in a sunny spring day.

France's government passed laws to allow AI-assisted facial recognition to be used massively "because" of Paris Olympics. And these are likely to stay after the Olympics. See: https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

EVs pollute more nano particles because of more weight and subsequent tire wear.
EVs batteries production and disposal is highly pollutant and they need replacement before the vehicle end of life. This can potentially shorten the whole vehicle affordable lifespan.
EVs uses a lot of online computerized, monitoring, maintenance and upgrades. Support and online computer tech create a very short term obsolescence. This also greatly impairs the second-hand market and sharply shorten vehicle life.

A lot of people uses 15-25 years old vehicles. It is clear that there will be no affordable, still supported 20+YO EVs which rely on battery replacement, online computer systems and working/responsive servers to support all tech and software.

I predict that most EV sold today will be junk by 10-15 years. And this is one big nasty waste and pollution source.

I also predict that we will deal with more critical problems than EVs mobility in the near future. EVs will be the least of our concern when we will be battling for water, food, energy or just our lives and the already growing world-wide wars, revolts and oppressive governments trying to mitigate those while protecting the happy few privileged super riches from the growing mess.

This convoluted proof of concept with the light sensor is not the real issue.

The real issue is that the web or 3rd-party via App can acquire data from a device without device user or owner explicit consent and interaction.

Usually acquiring keyboard, mouse or screen touch data require specific focus on the application in a defined domain like window focus. And unless user explicitly perform actions on these devices on focus to the application, there is no possible background data acquisition.
Even the display device has a defined domain. Application cannot draw outside window or area they registered their own.
Even acquisition of device characteristics shall require user consent. Website have no legitimate business known the screen size, pixel ratio and other characteristic without user consent. Knowing available draw area or window size is ok, but physical size and resolution is not without consent.

Now that someone made a wholly transparent screen. Lets add new features that would make it more useful:

Challenging but possibly useful:
* Add per-pixel alpha-channel control so the screen has variable transparency so that the screen can be selectively become opaque.
* Add per-pixel RGB filtering control, so that it can be seen by incoming light, (like classic LCD panels without backlight)

Now with that, it could become a useful HUD panel. No need to replace the windshield. It would work as sun screen, work in plain daylight as well as during night without blinding.

Anyway, the usefulness of such a screen is really questionable in its current state and current period. Lets try to revisit this in a few decades if we don't have more important problems to solve by that time.

It is sure an attraction.

As for car windshield, possibly for luxury cars. Otherwise, who need their windshield replacement to cost even more than plain film-layered glass?

Car insurance prices are already skyrocketing with electric cars.

Driving assistance or autonomous driving or you know, that thing called mass transit systems is what future generation will need, because having individuals moving in personal vehicle weighting tons and needing mating huge amount of Watt to move is not sustainable at all.

This screen is a nice demo and that's it.

This is how they sell it in the various press releases.