“Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.”

“A small LED light is designed to indicate when recording is taking place, but RTBF’s investigators found that tutorials explaining how to conceal the indicator are abundant and easily accessible online.”

Sometimes I have a hard time deciding who I despise more, parasite Mark Zuckerberg or its witless hosts who keep using its products—yes, Zuck’s pronoun is it. Ban Ray-Ban, for frick’s sake.

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    3 days ago

    That’s not what is being discussed though (streaming video to fb/google/government/etc).

    That’s where it would start crossing the line into surveillance, which has strict laws around it.

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      3 days ago

      You think Facebook smart glasses aren’t sending the video anywhere? Their entire business model is harvesting data on people.

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          2 days ago

          The same way smartphones do, either streaming it or by uploading to whatever cloud “backup” they’re connected to. Again, I should not have to explain this to you.

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            21 hours ago

            They’re factually not though. If you’ve somehow caught them doing it, transferring gigs and gigs and gigs of data per hour, provide the evidence please. These claims of yours are simple to prove if true.

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                  12 hours ago

                  Unless these companies are offering some means for the rest of us to restrict smart glass wearers from filming whenever the fuck they want the only sane option is to treat them as if they are doing it all the time.

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                    2 hours ago

                    There are no means for the rest of us to restric smartphone owners from filming whenever they want, are there? Should all people carrying a phone be treated as if they’re doing it all the time too?

                    Look, at the end of the day if you’re in public you can’t control other people being able to see you or take photos/videos of you. There are already laws around filing in private areas of public places, so nothing really needs to change.