I got a tour of a military base with a guy who was wearing smart glasses and I couldn't fucking believe that someone didn't grab them off his face and break them in half. I was being VERY careful to ask if I was permitted to take pictures in some places (in at least one of which where the answer was No), and this dude was cruising around like Boris Badunov trying to gather secrets.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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Might be a good time to tell someone.
I DID tell the guide what he was wearing because I didn't want us to end up in a military detention cell but the guide was like "Eh, it's fine," so I guess it was, but boy it didn't feel like it should have been!
it was fine because guide probably didnt understand the concept of glasses being able to record stuff, otherwise it would have been fine for you to take pictures too.
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precisely why I won't talk to someone wearing a camera, or pointing a camera at me.. I'll stand there in silence the entire time, or just walk away.
put the camera down, talk or buh bye..
The point is that she didn't even know she was being recorded. That's why this story is all about the smart glasses being used to covertly record people.
“But I want to document what you say!”
🤐🖕
Only time it's acceptable is in front of a cop since they can't be trusted to operate the cameras they should be wearing themselves
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Smart glasses are probably where the privacy debate around AI becomes truly mainstream. Phones are visible, wearable AI cameras are much harder for people to recognize in real time. It feels like society is heading toward a major legal and ethical adjustment period.
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another reason to continue masking in public tbh
probably going to start purposefully looking away from people if they try to talk to me with those on and if they push it I'll ask them to take them off and if they refuse to disengage completely
I know none of this is foolproof but it at least is social pressure and signalling to anyone around that I'm trying to avoid them if it escalates
It might work if you're a man but if you're a woman, it doesn't matter what you do, if a man wants to film you, follow you, harass you, he will do it. And now he's filming it too and posting it online for profit.
yeah it probably won't stop them I am a woman it's mostly to publicly shame them bc maybe they'll think twice if they're not willing to escalate in public
Yeah it's probably no harm at least, worth a try.
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If they go black mirror, black mirror them back: block them. Physically they talk, you don’t respond. They don’t exist anymore.
https://youtube.com/shorts/jm2c--qzSbk
If you buy these things you’re a fucking creep
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If I ever see someone wearing smart glasses near me I will slap them off their face.
This is not about smart glasses.
holding a glass slab in front of someone’s face is a lot more likely to be clocked.
So pervert blackmailers switch to button cameras. They are cheaper and even less obvious than thick black ray bans.
So pervert blackmailers switch to button cameras. T
It is entirely about smart glasses. button cameras have been around for AGES. But they have shit lenses and crap sensors; these fucking chodes want to up the production value on the nonconsensual porn they already shoot with their phones - on the stairs up skirts, down the blouses of women, etc.,
they want a head cam with better resolution and head tracking.
keep advocating for the perverts
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Literally black mirror
What were the victims doing that would incriminate them? I am not saying that it isn't enough to just not want to be filmed, but most people don't seem to care about privacy so I am wondering if they had some leverage.
probably being a woman while naked
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