Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.
Yeah the use case I see for these is literally having a record of your trip or vacation without having to take out a camera or phone and bring you out of the natural experience just to snap a photo or video. You can just exist and experience it in the moment, then pull a recording or photo from it later.
Augmented reality is another, albeit smaller, use case. Like displaying navigation when walking or biking around an unfamiliar city, again without having to pull out your phone.
You’re in public, there are hundreds of cameras recording you and your surroundings at any point. Nearly every store has security cameras, cities have cameras monitoring nearly every intersection nowadays(not even including things like Flock, just the old dumb traffic monitoring cameras). You have control of absolutely none of those recordings at any point. And that doesn’t even get into vloggers, tourists, etc.
You See, Not everyone lives in a dystopian surveillance dictatorship. At least for now. As far as im concerned, the “others are already doing it so what’s the harm” argument is not valid. Meta is a private company. They already use their shit app to track the offline connections anyone with Facebook/Instagram installed has and record everything from SSIDa to BT beacons and connect the data with multiple sources. Having a surveillance camera mounted on someone’s head that can send a live feed non-stop to a private company is not the same as someone blogging or taking a picture with a phone of a camera. You can see those actions and take appropriate actions.
The way disabling the recording light is advertised as a service gives us a peek on the most practical use case for the actual consumer: being a creepy little fuck. Glassholes were the beginning, but at least you could spot them easily.
Yeah the use case I see for these is literally having a record of your trip or vacation without having to take out a camera or phone and bring you out of the natural experience just to snap a photo or video. You can just exist and experience it in the moment, then pull a recording or photo from it later.
Augmented reality is another, albeit smaller, use case. Like displaying navigation when walking or biking around an unfamiliar city, again without having to pull out your phone.
You’re in public, there are hundreds of cameras recording you and your surroundings at any point. Nearly every store has security cameras, cities have cameras monitoring nearly every intersection nowadays(not even including things like Flock, just the old dumb traffic monitoring cameras). You have control of absolutely none of those recordings at any point. And that doesn’t even get into vloggers, tourists, etc.
You See, Not everyone lives in a dystopian surveillance dictatorship. At least for now. As far as im concerned, the “others are already doing it so what’s the harm” argument is not valid. Meta is a private company. They already use their shit app to track the offline connections anyone with Facebook/Instagram installed has and record everything from SSIDa to BT beacons and connect the data with multiple sources. Having a surveillance camera mounted on someone’s head that can send a live feed non-stop to a private company is not the same as someone blogging or taking a picture with a phone of a camera. You can see those actions and take appropriate actions. The way disabling the recording light is advertised as a service gives us a peek on the most practical use case for the actual consumer: being a creepy little fuck. Glassholes were the beginning, but at least you could spot them easily.