The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media’s coverage of how people are using Meta’s Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

more at: @feed@404media.co

https://tech.lgbt/@yjeanrenaud/116122129025921096

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    9 days ago

    I agree but the biggest defense for this is to always assume you’re being recorded when in public even if you’re not. You never know.

    The issue becomes relevant in private spaces, to me. Nobody with smart glasses is coming into my home.

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      9 days ago

      Doesn’t this boil down to self-censorship in public? Better not critizise the government in public becaus you never know whos waring smart glasses…

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        9 days ago

        I agree with the core of your point. I’d like to assert, though, that all people exert some level of self-censorship in public on the basis of the opinions of their neighbors and peers. Having to worry about powerful organizations like governments and megacorps also always being there (instead of just sometimes, or usually) adds a new degree of reason to self-censor, for sure.

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          Yes. You should have to censor yourself for neighbors and peers to have a functioning society. You should not have to do it for corporations. The line is pretty cut and dry and we should fight to keep it.

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      9 days ago

      the biggest defense for this is to always assume you’re being recorded when in public even if you’re not

      So women in July should wear tarps?

      What posible application is there for this CreepTech?