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Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.

And rightfully so.

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[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 hours ago

Well, yeah. You wouldn't allow someone to film at a swimming pool with their phone. Stealth cameras of any form are immediately far more suspicious.

[–] btsax@reddthat.com 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So the same thing smartphones are? It's easy to run install and run spy apps on them that record everything.

Everybody is getting so anxious about new technology these days. Smart glasses are pervert glasses, AI is completely bad and cannot have any possible good use, etc. Maybe the problem isn't with the technology, but with the companies and the corruption world wide.

It'd be easy with regulations to have LEDs to go along with recording functions to notify other users when they are, but it seems these technologies are being allowed to run rampant spying under the scummiest of companies who do want to record and obtain your private information. Nobody is putting up even the most basic roadblocks or bothering to be transparent about their software.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

That's a lot of words to out yourself as a pervert...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

google was the first to make pervert glasses, did people not learn from this.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

The companies learned that they needed to let the concept wait a few years before being reintroduced

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Aren't the glassholes extinct by now?

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Down with camera glasses!

Now back to regularly scheduled perv camera phone existence.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 points 15 hours ago

I remember a long time ago I did buy camera glasses in 2016 and they were 720p (allegedly) but were 100% disconnected and you needed a cable to get your stuff out of there.

Why did I get them? Because they were a good way of being a tourist and recording things from your POV without a camera. Also I bought many for a spy themed evented I was attending.

These are just terrifying.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Creeper peepers

[–] laurenceOfSuburbia@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh - I love this angle!!!

Spread the word bros! I'll only call them pervert glasses from now on

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Surveillance glasses.

(If "pervert" is too much in a discussion)

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[–] GhostFace@lemmy.today 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because that's what they are?

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 61 points 1 day ago (22 children)

Anyone wearing those are absolutely being a perv and playing dumb about it. Apple will probably come out with those next, and push them just like they have air pods so that they'll have a camera to go with their always active mics! Fucking drives me nuts when people act like they're so technologically savvy by using siri to call people on the phone.

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