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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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[–] highjayhawk@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I agree 100%, but a thought occurred to me…would these help lead to more arrest if assaults were captured on the cameras. It sucks that such an existential threat to privacy could do real good. Forces some moral and ethical issues that that techno feudalism is forcing on us.

[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I agree 100%, but a thought occurred to me…would these help lead to more arrest if assaults were captured on the cameras. It sucks that such an existential threat to privacy could do real good. Forces some moral and ethical issues that techno feudalism is forcing on us, and we aren’t making the choice.

you should be reading more cyberpunk / scifi literature. There is literally the case for human action and freedom within the machine. And assuming that AI cameras are also the freuquent next step in police states. Do you really want this? Are you allowed to have ambitions outside the machine?

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days 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.

[–] highjayhawk@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ofc I don’t want this. But I look at my wife and daughter and their safety comes first hence the dilemma. And philosophy should be considered as well.

Fucking assholes would sell out the world for a false sense of security.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Those who would give up any measures of Liberty to purchase any amount of temporary Security deserve neither Liberty or Security.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (2 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

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Spy glasses are much less obvious than using a phone camera.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Back to the 1960s....these were marketed to look at kids and girls.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days 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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

There is no reason for anyone to be walking around and public with hidden cameras.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Is unsolved assault cases currently a problem? That sounds like an answer looking for a problem to me.

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

And I think it just means anyone deciding to commit assault just also steals/ destroys the victims phone and glasses as a default