Privacy

51051 readers

276 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Thoughts on privacy focused smart glasses? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by guymontag@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

To be clear this is not a real product or whatever I would just be interested in people's thoughts.

Do you think you would like privacy focused smart goggles? Eg: no camera/hardware camera lock, all on device intelligence, signal support, idk what else you guys can leave ideas in the comments.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 17 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I mostly just don't see the point in them. If the technology could run a live adblocker that would be a different story.

[–] bright@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

There's a bunch of good uses for them (but none that outweigh the privacy problems). For example when you look at someone you met before it can pop up info about them like their name, business relationship to you, topic interests you've talked about before, etc.

[–] North@lemmy.org 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That sounds very dystopian to me. Have we humans reached such a low that we need to be reminded of the person's name we are talking to even though we've met them before or business relationships, or what we talked with them?

The glasses I wear everyday which do not contain any kind of electronics already does its job perfectly. Smart Glasses are an unnecessary extra, created merely due to the rise of trend of 'en-smartify every product and implement it with unnecessary electronics and spyware.'

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

Finally, we've invented a machine that saves mankind from the drudgery of getting to know other people!

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (3 replies)