Privacy

Down with camera glasses!

Now back to regularly scheduled perv camera phone existence.

Sociopath glasses

You know what there should be a pull-down menu option on all phones called, "Radius" and it puts up a censored image over you like a box or a blur that can not be removed by any smart glasses wearer but can be removed by LEO's if needed. It could use the compasses proximity sensor and identify smart glasses in the area. Could be a nice addition to Android or Graphene.

I remember a long time ago I did buy camera glasses in 2016 and they were 720p (allegedly) but were 100% disconnected and you needed a cable to get your stuff out of there.

Why did I get them? Because they were a good way of being a tourist and recording things from your POV without a camera. Also I bought many for a spy themed evented I was attending.

These are just terrifying.

With Google glasses, it was this strange contraption over one eye, so it was easy to shun or shame them into taking it off when at a conference or in a public bathroom (saw it happen many times).

Problem with these are that the wearer can claim they're prescription, even though there's a camera and mic on them. And there are tons of stickers and covers you can buy online to hide the little recording indicator.

There were also stories that these would soon autorecord/stream everything, and use AI to transcribe what was said and identify anyone encountered. Presumably so you could later go back and review something that you missed.

What we have are essentially millions of portable Flock cameras with infinite storage and personal ID built in.

I was hoping pedo glasses would catch on as a term but I can settle for this.

second comment: I wouldn't doubt that there's a large percentage of perverted individuals using smart glasses, every time there's a technological advanced way to capture images of people without their consent, there will be creeps and perverts using that technology for fucked up purposes and if they know they can get away with it they'll do it. Best example, the police emergency response system went down and they couldn't take 911 calls for like 6 hours or something like that and my fiance and I were at the beach and some random guy with a telescopic lens starts taking pictures of kids on the beach. There was an area wide or I think it was actually the whole state that went down for a few hours might've been 3 hours but still!!!! The moment that emergency text went out to everyone who was able to get it , the moment you saw crime rise for 3 hours. I saw 4 drug deals and that creep taking pictures of kids when I was at the beach because people knew they could get away with it.

I've always wanted a search in my glasses while I drive. Look at that building, it's cool, what is it? What's the name of that lake? How far away is that mountain from me? What kind of tree is that? How old is that collapsing building? Etc.

But I don't want to be a pervert. I've made it nearly 50 years successfully avoiding that.

same way the monkeywrench got its name maybe