▲ 283 ▼ Smart glasses banned from upcoming Scottish Comic Con to stop 'secret filming' (news.stv.tv) submitted 3 months ago by fireweed@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments Good, glassholes can fuck off
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 point 3 months ago (2 children) Are they going to ban smarphones too? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child) It's much harder to secretly record someone in any decent quality with a smartphone than with a pair of glasses where you just have to look would be my guess. That and smartphones have multiple other uses. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago By law, smart phones in Japan have to have their shutter sound being hard coded on in the settings to prevent perverts from taking upskirt shoots. I'm not sure how effective it is, but it would at least prevent the casual voyeur. Looks like meta glasses have a recording light, but there are people selling hacking services to disable it and of course it's being advertised on Facebook Marketplace. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 child) It's much harder to secretly record someone in any decent quality with a smartphone than with a pair of glasses where you just have to look would be my guess. That and smartphones have multiple other uses. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago By law, smart phones in Japan have to have their shutter sound being hard coded on in the settings to prevent perverts from taking upskirt shoots. I'm not sure how effective it is, but it would at least prevent the casual voyeur. Looks like meta glasses have a recording light, but there are people selling hacking services to disable it and of course it's being advertised on Facebook Marketplace. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago By law, smart phones in Japan have to have their shutter sound being hard coded on in the settings to prevent perverts from taking upskirt shoots. I'm not sure how effective it is, but it would at least prevent the casual voyeur. Looks like meta glasses have a recording light, but there are people selling hacking services to disable it and of course it's being advertised on Facebook Marketplace. permalink fedilink source parent