Fuck the assholes who would do this.

Glassholes are making a comeback, fuck.

They're desperate to get data about human activity. They wanted data about what people do online and they've got all of that. Now they need to move into the human world as much as possible. It used to be just for selling to advertisers, but now they also need to feed it into AI.

They already try to force these into every area of our lives..... all phone data, all online content, dating apps, phone keyboards, browser fingerprinting, internet connected fridges, cars, door bells, home cameras, etc etc. Now they will try to find new and novel ways to put more data collection devices (camera, mic, GPS, gryo and movement trackers, any physical parameter they can think of, etc etc) into more insane devices.

They will push "smart" clothes, wearable AI devices, furniture, toilet, etc etc. They will say these are absolutely essential and add value to our lives. People will eat this up immediately and fall over themselves to incorporate these into their lives and celebrate how amazing this is.

It started with the initial days of Facebook when I didn't want to be on Facebook, but people I know would still upload my pictures and tag them with my name. They need more and more ways to get information on people not in their ecosystem. This shit will only get more and more invasive.

They're being built into earbuds and headphones now too. Let me see if I can find links to the products again, saw them while browsing articles about CES

Edit: https://www.soundguys.com/razer-project-motoko-ai-headphones-150707/

The headphones were real, the earbuds were just a concept image though

It's all good until she breaks someone's plain old real prescription glasses thinking they are smart glasses.

Criminal justice system: Best I can do is a 300$ fine and 60 hours community service.

I don't have a link right offhand, but the indicator led is defeatable. There's people on ebay offering the modded glasses for only (iirc) like $100 more than msrp.

How exactly should a law like this work? Should it be obvious to anyone being recorded in public that they are being recorded and who is doing it?

That wouldn't be very beneficial to the surveillance state.

I want a device that makes it explode on their face and melt their eyes.

Better would be glasses (or some other device) that would selectively disable smart glasses. Extra points if the device causes the glasses to catch fire.

Infrared leds should be able to overexpose the cameras unless they have IR filters in them.

God i hate the idea that you have to wear glasses just because other people are total cunts.

The 'if you not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to hide' argument is a logical fallicy.
Any time someone throws that at you ask them why they have curtains/blinds on their windows, doors on their rooms and fences around their house.

They post dudes from the gym just trying to work out to shame them for attention and it's all fine because 'safety' but if they get posted or recorded it's suddenly an issue. Women's empowerment has always been hypocritical and self-serving.

The average consumer is stupid as a bag of rocks and care more about doing what they feel like doing than doing what is wise. They've helped build a consumer product surveillance state and will never admit any fault for it, even when ICE now uses it to gestapo them. They shamed anyone that dared suggest maybe don't invite tracking and surveillance technology into every inch of OUR lives, or posting everyone's shit on Facebook all day. Fuck these ppl for helping usher in the techbro fascist dictatorship we're now suffering.

I'm 90% on-board with disliking these, but I can see uses for 'Augmented Reality' glasses. I just wish they worked the way they do in Sci-fi and video games.

Lots of interactions we have on our phones could be done hands-free on a HUD

automatic translation of text or voice when traveling navigation/directions and similar guidance, like automatic subway/train maps instant access to biometric data trends like heart rate, glucose levels and more

I've also been part of a pilot to get a HUD to provide AR data to a manufacturing operator, showing things like line speed, temperature and other kinds of data they would otherwise have to go to a computer for. This was around the google glass era, though, and the devices were too pricey to justify and the tech wasn't there yet.

I do think these devices need to be more obvious. We called them glassholes when google was starting this wearable computing trend and people were using them inappropriately; and we've seen how any internet-connected camera like Ring and Flock can be abused.

The concept of the personal HUD is useful, but it still needs workshopping to make it socially safe. Also, the ones like the Meta/Rayban glasses are just pervert tools. No AR, just a camera has no value other than creeping.