Technology

Look, I actually want smart glasses, but there is absolutely no reason for there to be cameras in them.

Just give me a HUD so I can follow transit directions or something. I'm not trying to take creepshots.

What really frustrates me is that governments and big business have normalized surveillance everywhere, and now big business is basically selling wearable spyware, and this is all quite egregious.

But, one of the biggest ways to combat this is with "sousveillance", or the surveillance of oneself. This has proven to be quite effective for motorists who own dashcams, and could be useful other places as well. But AI-peddling billionaires have ruined the reputation of that kind of thing entirely to the point where even open source variants of this tech will be rejected by the public.

So businesses, the government, and the police have the right, and in many cases the obligation to record your every move in public, but you aren't allowed to record your own surroundings in return.

It's probably because the fucking glasses were used by the worst people at first. They were used by dudebros and weirdos who wish to do harm towards others. That's why people called them Perv glasses. Which isn't surprisng given Zuckerberg's whole M.O.

Creeps love an always-on camera that you can wear on your face so that it's not obvious that you're filming?

Who could've seen that coming

It's not just that people are "perverts", it's that they're wearing a camera on their face constantly filming people who have a reasonable expectation to privacy. Even in public most countries would protect that expectation in a lot of cases.

So unless somebody wants to be violently assaulted and their glasses ripped and smashed off their face, then it might be best to not buy them at all, or only wear them in private.

Being accidentally recorded in the background of someone's photo or video is one thing, and it happens all the time, that is fine

But we all know it doesn't end there.

These glasses allow secret recording

Of your children at the playground

Of your wife and children at the beach

Of your wife and you at a nude beach

Then all the videos will be picked up by Facebook and fed into their AI. your kids, your family, you, will forcibly be used for AI proposes, you will also be identified, your locations will be stored with it and sold to the highest bidder. Your facial expressions will be determined, what you all were wearing, what you were doing. All of it will be not used but abused to hell and back

If I see such glasses making a recording of me and or my family that will be the end of those glasses

also it has the stigma of Zuckerberg using his companies as datamining, spying, right wing peddling platforms. his name was enough to derail anything that comes out of meta.

I legitimately struggle to imagine what else you'd use them for unless you were doing daily vlogging, in which case you'd be talking to yourself and it would be pretty obvious. But anyone just like riding the subway with these things is just creeping until proven otherwise.

Backlash not strong enough imo but good news is good news.

It's nice to see no one learned anything from Google Glass. This is why we're fucked as a species...

Now do billionaires, and we golden!

If only tech bros watched dystopian works about technology like Black Mirror that told us how dumb this concept really is. But hey at least they will learn from their own mistakes, right… right?

Others have said it better than I ever could, but in my own words, even IF every person who bought these was the epitome of the highest moral and ethical standards, I would still be uncomfortable due to the way-too-high possibility of them being 'hacked' remotely which would still have the potential to destroy lives

good!

The real problem is yet to come.

Miniaturizing the components until they can be integrated into normal glasses frames. Then it'll be impossible to distinguish a normal spectacles wearer from a glasshole.

It's not far away, many fashion brands of frames are already chunky enough to do so.

Glassholes have returned

Good.

Edit; I would add that people using these glasses should get ostracised. Point and laugh at them.