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Not every WebCam circuitry is designed with your safety and privacy in mind.
If it makes you feel better, cover it up.
I get to choose my web cam and if I cover it. I have no control over what the owner of these glasses does with them - or whatever they capture. These are practically custom made for upskirt creeps and god knows what else.
I was just using WebCams as a contemporaneous technological example. Not to equate the two, as they are, as you have illustrated, extraordinarily different in their contextual applications.
These glasses creep me the absolute fuck out, and have for over a decade, ever since Google glasses first came out. I think they should just be outright outlawed, but that’s not the world we live in.
I agree with everything else you've said in this thread, but if someone is getting upskirt recordings of you with their glasses ... Hopefully you'd notice.
Someone holding a pair of glasses in their hand, just casually letting them dangle below waist-height, does not seem that immediately suspicious to me
How's that different from any other hidden mini camera, though?