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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media (www.404media.co)
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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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[–] 29 points 6 months ago (18 children)

I agree but the biggest defense for this is to always assume you're being recorded when in public even if you're not. You never know.

The issue becomes relevant in private spaces, to me. Nobody with smart glasses is coming into my home.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn't this boil down to self-censorship in public? Better not critizise the government in public becaus you never know whos waring smart glasses...

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I agree with the core of your point. I'd like to assert, though, that all people exert some level of self-censorship in public on the basis of the opinions of their neighbors and peers. Having to worry about powerful organizations like governments and megacorps also always being there (instead of just sometimes, or usually) adds a new degree of reason to self-censor, for sure.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Yes. You should have to censor yourself for neighbors and peers to have a functioning society. You should not have to do it for corporations. The line is pretty cut and dry and we should fight to keep it.

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago* (13 children)
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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago

    I would love for an AI machine to be all knowing and all pervasive. It honestly sounds like it could be great.

    Except definitelt not because we know 100% that nobody could be trusted to be in charge of it.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

    would these help lead to more arrest if assaults were captured on the cameras

    It might also help find lost puppies, but that's not a good enough reason to give up any additional amounts of privacy to the megacorporations or to a police state.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Everyone around you has a phone with a camera. Businesses and the government have additional cameras looking all over. The phone camera being less obvious and handsfree seems like an arbitrary choice of where to draw the line

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I don't know about you, but when I'm walking around all my phone camera sees is the inside of my pocket. Hands free stealth cameras seems like a perfectly reasonable place to draw the line.

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