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The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

more at: @feed@404media.co

https://tech.lgbt/@yjeanrenaud/116122129025921096

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[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 154 points 3 days ago

Wasnt there a ton of outrage and such incl people not being allowed on planes, back when google glass was released?

Why is it all OK now?

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 95 points 3 days ago

Same reason our governments suck ass. Something unpopular tries to get passed again, and again, and again, and again, and eventually people get desensitized and worn out from trying to fight against it. That or it hits on the right time when people are distracted by something else bigger or more important.

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 days ago

It still isn't OK.

It is just that the technology became so small, you can't differentiate with regular sunglasses anymore.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I mean you kind of still can. Wire frame sunglasses are still too small to have recording hardware.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They should be only with transparent plastic a flashing LED that signals CREEP in morse.

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 61 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I remember Google Glass itself receiving a ton of outrage actually: People hated it and anyone wearing one was made fun of ("glassholes" was a popular insult at the time).

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I’ll still use it for the meta garbage, but I think the reason is that the glasses are just inconspicuous enough for most normies to not notice they are being recorded. Till the moron wearing them starts staring off into space while reading tweets at least.

There's a window of attention for public discourse and there's fatigue. We, as a group, can only be upset about so much. It's a tried tactic to just try to distract us with some crazy shit, like Trump did with the alien files. If one crazy thing comes up in the news, other stuff will drop from our radar. And that's why people try shit again and again and again. Always in the hope that this time people are distracted by other stuff or are finally worn down enough.

[-] pemptago@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Windows Recall has re-entered the chat.

[-] matlag@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago

Years of privacy violations going deeper and deeper under pretend of "progress" and "pRoTeCt the cHiLdReN". I am glad that people started rebelling against Flock, and some removed their Amazon cameras following the Superbowl's ads, but that's not even close to how much we should be mad at these mass surveillance actors.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Years of privacy violations going deeper and deeper under pretend of "progress" and "pRoTeCt the cHiLdReN".

https://imgur.com/QqabC7T

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago

Many years of indoctrination. When Google glass was introduced, it was just 'a neat idea'. Now it's a product, and therefore it's clearly more trustworthy because someone is profiting from it. (/s)

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