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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media
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It's also manufacturing consent for society to accept being covertly recorded by random people at all times, and potentially for that footage to be posted out of context on the internet with brainrot edits and sound effects mocking people minding their own business because they happened to act a little funny but ultimately harmless in public. It used to be that wearing any kind of hidden camera on your person made you a creep and an asshole period, doubly so if you post any of that footage anywhere, even when it was technically legal. Is it wrong to want it to stay that way? Now you have tech companies not just providing resources to, but actively encouraging that same creep behavior and gas lighting everyone else into thinking they're the problem if they don't like it.
This bothers me too. There are whole sites dedicated to doing that, making fun of people who suffered a medical issue or accident or just did something foolish or awkward. It's even worse now that face recog can dox them.
Over time I think this risks driving the empathy out of society. People are click fodder for streamers, instead of human beings who probably do not want their worst moments recorded for a million strangers to laugh at. Everyone becomes more guarded, more on edge in public places. It is an erosion of the social fabric.
That's literally the point I'm making. In some places it is common place to see streamers broadcasting in public, and I've seen plenty of videos of not as obvious streaming as well. This will continue that trend, and the question is whether we pass laws to change that. The technology only makes it more accessible.