So Nintendo is just an innocent gaming company right? They wouldn't be spying on the lil kiddos with hidden in plain sight semi secret night vision cameras right!?
WRONG! ðĪŠ

That black plastic you see below is 100% see through to infrared cameras.
The switches IR/night vision camera is about as cheap and low quality as it gets, but MOST IR cameras are just as good as your phone takes a selfie or even better! Which will be everything else in this post.
My old nintendo DS I hadn't powered on in over a decade still had THE SAME battery percentage!!! But if you leave ANY joycon out for a little while the battery dies down to nothing, and sometimes a little less than nothing!
Also the privacy policy of Nintendo updated after the major update/near the release of the switch 2 for ALL nintendo switch and switch 2 devices to include agreeing to 24/7 audio/video recording! ð
Oh you spent thousands of dollars in the switch store and thousands of hours of your life invested into the hardware you bought from us? Hmmmmmmm well if you want to be able to access any of that you HAVE to let us spy on your 24/7! ;D
The same thing has been added secretly to car steering wheels/dashboards since covid. See the top of the steering wheel? That black plastic looks a lil familiar huh! Yep, that's the ""driver monitoring system"" A.K.A. the let us secretly steal your emotions, biometrics, blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, where your eyes look, inputs, reactions, everything you say and do in your car, etc. to train a giant AI that will automate driving and in the near to medium future take away all of your agency/free will/control over your own transportation by law and force.

Well what if I just use an old car! Ha! They surely can't take away MY freedom if I just drive an old car!
Well they will probably just say "human drivers are just so much more dangerous so you obviously want peopl--- No! You want CHILDREN to DIE!!! ð" Also they will say it's so much more efficient for all of the vehicles to communicate and draft one another, we could get rid of traffic lights and save you oh so much money! But... that can't happen without 100% of the cars being self driving. ;)
Good luck getting away with it because next on the list is FLOCK CAMERAS!

^They look like this most of the time, although sometimes they put JUST the camera up on a traffic pole and they use the power from the grid.
These Cameras ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL SEARCHES which become UNCONSTITUTIONAL SEIZURES.
AND These cameras are NOT JUST ALPRs (Automated License Plate Readers) if they were just ALPRs well then why do they see INSIDE your car at night AND fine you $1,251 for having a phone face down in your lap huh!?
They are now also adding highly sensitive multi-directional microphones on them to listen to far off conversations, and much more.
Also they are putting flock cameras on WALKING TRAILS... So OBVIOUSLY these are NOT JUST license plate readers!!!
Also the cops use them to stalk people, and flock also sells the data to stalkers, Benn Jordan caught the vice president of flock watching little girls in gymnastics class all the time... Really lets you know what they meant when they said "BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN!"
Soon flock and other companies plan to deploy drones to spy on you in your own private back yard and home. They want to KILL privacy and the fourth ammendment, ushering in a totalitarian surveilence state that throws anyone who doesn't like whatever the government is doing at the time in prison or just outright kills them like they did in Russia and they currently do in China.
All these high resolution AI cameras blanketing the nation suddenly within just the last two years? THAT's the REAL reason the data and processing centers are going up everywhere, even in rural towns. They need all this information so that you don't stand a chance protesting or revolting in the future.
Anyways I will make another better rant on flock later. Moving on for now.

I've noticed in recent years a lot of credit card readers and sales kiosks now have cameras integrated into them. They SECRETLY take your photo/videos of you stealing your facial data and other biometrics...
See the camera in the top right? It's to the left of where it says "A30".
I've also found secret IR cameras in them at various businesses.
Another secret camera location is in the new "anti-theft" detectors. Again... See that SAME black plastic?

More and more stores are adding these magnetic acoustic resonance scanners with cameras and or IR cameras in or near the top usually around the height of the average person. (Some scan a lot more than just a little metal anti-theft strip by the way!!!)
I have many more examples of how cameras have crept up into our life especially since covid. But this post is so long I fear it won't post If I don't stop and check now lol!