To answer you, no, you can't just go into a federal building with armed personnel and put up cameras without prior permission or authority, and being insured to contract etc.
You can film in public because there's no reasonable expectation of privacy in public, but, specifically federal employees can be filmed doing their duty in public as long as you obey the law. In D.C. US is different than other jurisdictions like in Africa.
Knowing is half the battle. It will never stop us from giving you a better way to minimize your footprint. But are we really surprised to hear there is permanent telemetry in a system built on spyware?
Proton is now publicly calling Windows spyware over the Global Device ID that Microsoft uses for every Windows installation. They say users never consent to the GDID, can't remove it, and that reinstalling Windows only partially helps since Microsoft keeps the old records.
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