this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
801 points (97.1% liked)

Technology

86707 readers
3595 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

“Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.”

“A small LED light is designed to indicate when recording is taking place, but RTBF's investigators found that tutorials explaining how to conceal the indicator are abundant and easily accessible online.”

Sometimes I have a hard time deciding who I despise more, parasite Mark Zuckerberg or its witless hosts who keep using its products—yes, Zuck's pronoun is it. Ban Ray-Ban, for frick's sake.

(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

If only they had a "legitimate public-interest justification", then they could feed it straight into Brussels' Regional Informatics Center (BRIC), together with the thousands of public cameras from: police stations, the subway system, the port of Brussels, the fire and emergency medical assistance department, and the public service department responsible for traffic management, signals and tunnels; to be analyzed by video analytics tools (alerting operators upon "illegal parking or a large group of people, for example", bookmarking video clips with movement, and where the "next step will be to integrate facial and number plate recognition"), as reported in their Genetec customer story...

[–] Mearcfara@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

... and water is wet?

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Absolutely disgusting.

[–] sicjoke@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I am not a fan of this technology, but as far as I am aware there is not expectation of privacy when in public.

I am filmed constantly without my knowledge when in public in the UK.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's cultural I guess. In France you have an expectation of privacy in public. Same for Belgium I guess.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (17 replies)
[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Does anyone have a Cyberpunk glitch-face counter we can start wearing to avoid facial recording?

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›