No headline will get me to hate these abominations less.

If this is a ploy by meta to get me to root for their shitty surveillance glasses, it’s not going to work…

This is so ironic. “We want Traffic Cameras so we can monitor what everyone does, but we don’t everyone to see what we do.”

If they ban PervGlasses, they will also need to ban all the different variants of PervCameras.

Almost like they have something to hide.

Oh no, the government surveillance fascists and the corporate surveillance fascists are fighting.

"Remember that unless you do something bad, you have nothing to fear from surveillance."

That is what has been claimed by the authorities for decades, so clearly they are worried about nothing.

#RulesForTheeButNotForMe

That's a strong argument for Meta glasses...

Ah yes, recording is OK only for them, not for you. Got it.

Everyone does...

In 2016 there was a spy themed nerdy convention I was going to. As a way of getting into it. I ordered a lot of what I thought was fun spy gear. Camera sunglasses, camera wristwatches, camera pens, etc.

They worked (the pens... Their vest clip is the worst thing! I cannot put it anyway). They were low res. But I will say they this: they were 100% airgapped. No Bluetooth or WiFi. And you had to pull the data with a cable (it stored the stuff on a removable microSD card). Unhackable and private, basically.

I wish I kept a pair of camera sunglasses. I used them when on vacation to record things hand free (the camera was on the nose bridge, between the eyes) and I took some nice stuff going through the streets and in a museum (where we are allowed to film).

I also did people that they were camera glasses and pointed out where the lens was. Many were surprised but didn't care too much. In 2016, same year I got them. I was in Chicago and I did film a cop with someone they arrested and had cuffed to a bench. The cop glared at me when he caught me looking at him. He was entirely unaware I was filming him.

The only other case I heard of at that time of someone using camera glasses was some guy in Australia who was being racially abused by his neighbors (he was Indian I think) and had camera glasses on all the time to record his neighbors when they were being assholes to him so he can report them.

I gave those glasses away a long time ago. I wish I hadn't. All the new shit is unacceptable with a forced cloud upload and easily hackable.

Nice try, meta

Go flock yourselves.

Good