My phone is wicked smaht as they say. It can easily run detection algorithms fully locally. It already knows peoples faces I’ve tagged in my photos, where I am, what’s my agenda etc.

All the glasses need to do is interface with the phone for all tasks they can’t manage internally.

A smartwatch, but as glasses if you will.

Also if I do want any internet/cloud access, I trust my phone to do that in a way I prefer instead of just giving everything to Zuck’s ad machine.

I could imagine some uses for non-connected smart glasses. Mechanics who may want to refer to schematics as they work with both hands, without having to disengage and paw through paper or look it up on a laptop? Ppl with various disabilities, run a cheap algorithm to give acoustic cues to blind people?

Prob is, there's no visual way to know if the devices are cloud connected and spying for FB, or not. And even if not, if they're storing pics locally that will later get sent to a big tech co.

I miss the pre-IOT days TBH.

Sorry, what?

Honestly, I personally even barely care about the individual people who do this - that's been a thing for nearly 20 years now. Don't get me wrong - secretly filming people is creepy as fuck, and it's rightly illegal without consent in a lot of places.

But I'm more pissed off about is that beside the individuals, it's also being saved by corporations on an unprecedented and almost inconceivable scale. But it doesn't even stop at that massive privacy invasion - that data is then used, processed and extrapolated to wring every known piece of data out of it, to make a profit for those companies. Plus, since it's stored, they will also use it in the future, in ways we haven't even considered right now.

All of which without you knowing, or your consent. Creeps are one problem, but imho it's nothing compared to the companies that actually profit from it.

Point being that you didn’t need to ask for consent before any more than now. It might be illegal, but who cares, really?

Over here it’s legal to record any conversation you are a part of or can “reasonably hear”. So no parabolic shotgun mics allowed 😀

In Finland you are always allowed to record conversations you take part in. Law limits what you can use it for though.