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I don't see a problem with these thing. You could achieve the same by wearing a GoPro on your head. The problem comes in when all of the footage is automatically uploaded to a malicious company like Meta.
But a gopro on the head, or a phone held up to record, is much more conspicuous. These smart glasses are made for ppl to record their life 24/7. That automaticlaly means, other ppl's lives will be recorded by that person. Without their knowledge.
It is also bad with a gopro or a phone, ofc. But smart glasses make the prob even worse. That doesn't even get into the uses these will be put, creeping on women at beaches or w/e. If you go holding up a phone to creep somebody, there is social pressure to stop being an ass. You may even be asked to leave the venue. But when it is unobtrusive with smart glasses, the social pressure erodes b/c people don't even know.
I agree automatic upload is a prob. But even if it's local, the mere fact of walking around recording everything you see, means other ppl's worst moments are going to feature in tiktoks a LOT more often. And much more clickbait content made at the expense of ppl who don't even know they are being recorded, trying to make them look bad for the content. I agree, that happens already in other ways. But that doesn't mean we should want to see the prob get even worse.
I do 100% agree with the backlash of these cameras.
I also think that the general public should be just as weary of every front door having a ring camera, or every side yard having a blink camera.
While glasses are less conspicuous in public, these neighborhood cameras are already everywhere. You can’t take a walk at night without being on 20 different cameras. (While these cameras aren’t being used to be creepy) their footage is still going to a server where employees are doing whatever they want with them.
We gave up our privacy for convenience a long time ago. Meta glasses are the least of our worries if Palantir has anything to say about it.
Yah, I want the rings and flocks gone too!
We went down this road too much already, but going down it even more just makes it even worse IMO. It isn't a black & white situation, in the end. It's a matter of degree.
You understand this is a perverse foot in the door, right? When people become accustomed to the idea, of their every conversation possibly being recorded (for whatever reason), the follow-up step is bound to be cloud connectivity: with limited on-device storage and lack of redundancy (back-ups), cloud will naturally serve as the "convenient" solution for both of these self-created "problems". Problem-reaction-solution, always.
No I don't
Okay
People are already accustomed to being recorded in public. The "follow-up step" has nothing to do with local recording devices.
To some degree, but at least when it happens it's quite a bit more transparent and explicit. With the average consumer knowingly, or unknowingly, storing their smartphone's contents with a non end-to-end encrypted cloud provider, the recordings from this smartphone-connected device synced to it, will also become cloud accessible. So there's nothing inherently local about these devices, at least not in the hands of the average consumer.
Same, sousveillance is fine, it's when it becomes surveillance it's a problem.
And it already is surveillance because all the videos get uploaded to meta. (not sure about the Kmart ones)