That is not to say that humans are not scum who use these for creepy stuff, but there are cameras everywhere, location data, metadata, microphones, GPS, wifi, comms towers, not to mention the software on all those devices.

I also have an issue with these, and vehemently oppose them at every turn.

The human scum that develop, market and sell these things are also deserving of equal ire. The only difference is that they are the creators, not the direct end users, so they are harder to target with lawsuits due to the sheer size of the corporations and the amount of money being pushed into lobbying for their use (the "but its in the name of public safety!"/ "won't someone think of the children!" Crowd are always used by these companies to astroturf public opinion through browbeating etc)

Where's the hypocrisy? I've never suggested that these companies get a free pass to spy on people. Just because I'm verbal in my opposition to the use of permanently active cameras disguised as glasses does not mean I am not opposed to the panopticon we've been forced to grow up in.

Given technological development, eventually we will have actual, invisible implants for these things. Smart eyes, enhanced ears. How will we cope with that? When you cant even tell that you are being actively livestreamed or recorded, or algorithmically analyzed for personal information?

So by that logic, just because it might happen in the future, we shouldn't fight against it and work towards getting the rights to walk the streets without surveillance by unknown agents written into law to protect our privacy?

To me that reads the same way as "Why should we do anything to stop climate change when the air we're breathing is slowly becoming toxic? We'll all be dead in a couple of decades anyway." (Hyperbolic but along the same line of a defeatist "what's the point in making things better now when they're going to get worse?" arguing.)

And I wasn't saying that isn't a problem, merely addresing the issue at hand, which is that having cameras diguised as glasses (and provably used by perverts) is a very pressing matter.

I entirely agree that shady agencies having the ability to access personal device's cameras and microphones is an issue, one which can and should be solved by having the right to not be recorded without your consent put into law.

I appreciate that there are potentially benefits to technology, but the reality is these technological advancements are being used by people with ill intent, no matter what the company that benefits from them being produced markets them as.

Youll have to forgive my ire and hopefully understand the reason behind it, since (to me, at least) the argument of "There are benefits to these technologies" sounds a lot like the arguments for the use of 'AI' while in the same way ignoring/understating the vast number of downsides and documented cases of its misuse.