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Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses' (this.weekinsecurity.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by XLE@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.

And rightfully so.

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[–] YawningNostalgia@thelemmy.club -3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There are a ton of great applications for this and other cameras. If you're a woman walking around by herself it could help prove that an assault took place, for example. The problem is that the people buying these things are the freaks, not the innocents.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago

"Invading people's privacy by recording them without their knowledge or consent is only wrong when a man does it."