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[–] 179 points 7 months ago (144 children)

Stopped this bullshit for a decade or so

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  • [–] 64 points 7 months ago (19 children)

    All I'm saying is last time this tech trend came around, enough people who had a problem with it took drastic actions that directly affected the popularity of wearing a spycam on your face.

    Wouldn't surprise or upset me if history repeated itself.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    Its not. I wish we lived in a world where we could be trusted with things like this, but we dont.

    I really want a camera on my face and a HUD so I can live life more like a video game with screenshots, but we as a species have shown time and time again that we can't behave.

    Id rather nobody have one.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    What about if we jail the people who wear spycams in public first? Then there won't be any violence.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I’d say there are some valid use cases. Like sports? Biking, skiing, anywhere you might use a GoPro. This might work for sports where it is impractical to wear a GoPro. Also if they did this right, if it had a decent hud and zoom, this could be really helpful for the visually impaired or for other disabilities or medical conditions. That’s where these would be really helpful to society. But they never focus on that kind of shit. Instead it’s tech bros who want to sell this as a gimmick people can record themselves fucking, or stupid shit in the bar for their TikTok.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I can help explain. People are threatening physical violence because they see surveillance as akin to violence. They know that you are not the only one with access to the camera, that corporations or police could see them through your camera. They know that corporations and police often abuse their power and harrass people who legally oppose them.

    These people feel they have no other options but violence because automatic surveillance is forced onto societies regardless of the people's vote. They believe violence is bad, but surveillance is worse, and since surveillance can lead to violence by the state, people would rather be violence towards surveillance tech now before they are threatened for whatever the government decides is illegal that day.

    I agree with you that violence is often not the answer, and that discourse and voting is the right way. Where we might disagree is how well discourse and voting works when both are manipulated for selfish gain. Violence is a last resort, never a first, and it's important to understand why people choose violence because it shapes society so drastically.

    I wouldn't punch a person wearing smart glasses, but I support both other people breaking their property and pushing to make that property illegal. Laws serve society, not the other way around.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    I just saw a US Department of Justice report that 1 in 3 women are stalked in their lifetime. People with immigration issues are getting disappeared to concentration camps. US prisons are notoriously inhumane and people on parole can get violated for trivial reasons. The failure to understand that there are people who will feel seriously threatened by getting recorded without consent is just frustratingly ignorant.

    Yeah, there are a million security cameras everywhere but at least it is mostly just ignored and not an issue until law enforcement is actively looking for you (IDK what kind of Palantir evil is happening on the back end but that’s a whole nother issue). Social media is super random and chaotic. Why take the risk that your life will get blown up because you happened by a viral moment?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    How is it illogical if it worked? It might be immoral, but there's a clear through-line of cause and effect.

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago (17 children)

    doing legal stuff in public

    Just because its legal doesn't mean its right

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  • [+] 23 points 7 months ago (15 children)
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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

    sharing that information with facebook is the violence. i don't care if you take a photo and print it out to have it in a photo album. i care when i am in a big tech database, or even worse, an intelligence agency database. not that the two are very separate.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    if i feel uncomfortable being filmed i will make myself heard, first nonviolently, then maybe with a bit of physical pressure. if I don't even get to know when i am being filmed that's intensely devious.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    Yes…………

    Notice the ‘should’ in there?

    That word implys that he is talking about a moral prerogative and not a judicial matter…

    Which of course means its unenforceable. You're missing the point entirely if you think that even needs to be brought up.

    Him: “People Ought to // ought not to do this behaviour”

    Your: “Cant Force them hahahaha pwned 😎"

    Maybe just take a second to think about the implications of what you're reading instead of embarrassing yourself like this going autocomplete mode and writing irrelevant ass comments

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  • [–] 89 points 7 months ago (45 children)

    You actually should advocate for violence against people who are violating your rights

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  • [–] 43 points 7 months ago* (14 children)

    facebook knowing my personal information against my will goes against my right to privacy. there are also the ethics of recording people in secret instead of making it very obvious. no, a blinking red dot does not count, and it can also be covered with a special purpose-made made black sticker.

    now that i think about it, I'm just not comfortable being filmed without consent by strangers at all, in any way, regardless of where the images end up.

    i don't think people should get used to it either. it's incredibly creepy, even if no law is broken where you live.

    and yes, i do understand that in many places just being in public reduces your right to privacy so that you're legally allowed to be photographed as long as you're not the focus. i don't care. still creepy.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago* (7 children)

    there's absolutely a way to draw a line. no smart glasses. even if there wasn't, no regulation for the sake of regulators being too dumb is the worst take possible.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Like respecting others' freedom to a reasonable degree of privacy.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    What fact about yourself are you least willing to share with strangers?

    If there is no way to tell if that is a reasonable question for me to ask, then by what metric do you decide whether or not to answer it? Does that metric act as a stand-in for "reasonableness" to you, and if so then how do you square it with your earlier insistence that drawing such a line is impossible? If not, why?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    The proliferation of cameras in public is not a good thing. I am yet to see data showing it reduces criminality (supposed to be the intent), meanwhile it's a massive surveillance system.

    And the fact that a given situation is bad is hardly a good argument to promote making it worse.

    Meta collects data on everyone: from contact info in cellphone through their apps, uploaded photos, videos etc. If you don't have an account nor consent to anything, they will just not show the data, but will still build the profile combining different sources and feed it to its algorithms.

    It has been a well known practice for many years.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    *Unless Facebook does the unreasonable searching and we pay them for any data they collect

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    If I see someone filming me, I ask them to stop. That will escalate if they don’t.

    I think what people are missing here is the intention. There’s generalised filming of your surroundings, surveillance cameras…these glasses are intended for use in a social capacity. That will move into privacy issues and perverted use.

    These peoples right to use these glasses, as far as I’m concerned, does not eclipse my privacy or lack of desire to be filmed and put on Metas platforms and if I find someone using them on me they’ll be fucking told.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (17 children)

    It's easy to see someone holding up a camera or cell phone making it obvious they are recording. If you don't want to be recorded, you can just stay the fuck away from them. You can't avoid cameras/recording devices you can't see. Fuck meta, and fuck anyone else wearing their garbage, privacy invading glasses.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    People with legal issues, immigration issues or violent exes will absolutely dip if they see someone recording. I have none of these problems and I will always avoid gettIng recorded by randos if it’s easy to do so. I can’t reasonably avoid every Ring cam in my neighborhood but I will happily slide 10 feet to the left to avoid becoming collateral damage in some dbags insta reel.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The glasses are much more difficult to detect than someone holding up a phone to record. Will the glasses always look super obvious? The old Google ones were ginormous, I don’t know if I would recognize the FB ones in the wild.

    You can generally tell when a phone camera is pointed in your general direction within a reasonable range. It’s uncommon enough for people to do this in public outside of large crowds (concerts, sporting events, etc) that avoiding those situations isn’t an undue burden. With the glasses, can you tell whether they’re recording or do you just have to assume that they’re always recording?

    This is a non trivial escalation and I will definitely shun and or shame anyone I encounter with this trash tech.

    And there is nothing wrong with hating Zuck, his companies and the other billionaires destroying society. If you don’t have issues with existential threats then that is a bigger issue.

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago (17 children)

    A clear violation of the social contract deserves a swift response. Those glasses come off your face, and onto the pavement.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    When you say "fascist", you do realize that fascism involves crowd control and these glasses are a dream for a fascist regime? All the speech about "cameras everywhere is ok" falls right in the authoritarianism thinking, that's just a step from fascism.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    You really want these glasses, don't you? You're smart enough to debate the hypothetical, but miss the obvious point that new things will not be regulated as they should be, so the law doesn't function as it should in this situation. You cling tightly to the law as if it's doing what it's meant to do, when we both know you'd be taking advantage of the lack of laws for no clear benefit.

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