Then how will I secretly record my interactions with corporations, executives, or police? What about all those investigative journalism pieces that involve someone wearing a hidden camera to expose someone saying/doing something awful?

Is THAT where all this is headed? Making it harder for people to secretly record the elite?

Yes cameras that can hide in glasses or a hat have been around for a long, long time.

There are legitimate uses. I remember a TV news expose where a reporter wore a hidden camera into a series of chiropractic appointments to show what kind of quackery goes on. The footage was obscured to protect identities but the content of it was damning. That was good journalism.

Because the worst cameras aren't hidden.

The data shouldn't be stored, and shouldnt be procced remotaly.

On device or person just in time processing. That would be fine for me.

A blind person getting real time narration about their environment sounds amazing.

I think we have some precedent for allowing exceptions for accessibility devices. Seeing eye dogs are allowed in places that other dogs are not, for example.

But regulation could still hurt the sight impaired by putting a chill on innovation in this space. No one’s going to invest big in these technologies just to serve the sight impaired, I’m sorry to say.

This works better in Europe because making it a regulated medical device in the USA means "poor can use stick".

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The smart glasses or the moral panic?

A large part of the recent panic is about the fact that these new recording devices upload everything directly to a centralized server, where techbros can do waves arms in air vaguely with it.

If someone wants to record with a hidden USB body cam, that’s strictly a privacy issue between them and whoever they’re recording. You record something onto a microSD, then plug that into your computer to view. You’re the only one dealing with the footage, unless you specifically make the decision to upload it somewhere else.

But if you’re recording someone with smart glasses, it becomes a much bigger issue. Because your recording can be used to capture things like facial recognition data of everyone around you, for a third-party to use however they see fit.

Your argument is like saying that a closed-circuit security camera system in a mom-n-pop store, and Flock cameras spread throughout the town are the same thing. They’re fundamentally different, because the former is only used by whoever set the cameras up. But the latter has repeatedly shown to be a pipeline for abuse.

Yeah but those were advertised as like gimmicks for weirdos (like me!)

These are advertised for bros and also the recordings are shared with mega corps with Jensan Huang levels of trust to not screw it