When you see someone with those take out your phone and take a closeup picture of them. See how they like it...
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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I am distraught to learn that apparently smart glasses are not banned in the EU. Until now I assumed without checking that they obviously would be.
Interestingly in most of the EU, there's is no expectation of privacy in public and you are free to record people without their concent. Releasing or using those recordings is a completely different thing though.
You're free to record a crowd of people in public. Once you're pointing the camera at a person specifically, that's a whole different issue.
We are all vexed little rubberneckers. It's a human trait.
Glasshole the term needs to make a significant comeback. Normalize shunning, put up signs on bathrooms and anywhere else you can with
"'Smart' glasses forbidden. Fines applicable. Bluetooth detection active." and perhaps "This means you Glasshole ! "
whether such detection is active is moot, make the bastards as nervous as they should be. A (dummy) camera on the outside of the door should complete the illusion. Make them feel like perverts.
Non consensual filming should be unacceptable, but that's a whole other fight.
Bluetooth detection active
Yea, I'd love to get a fine for listening to music while I shit.
Dystopian stuff. The public should be protected from this stuff.
I want to like smart glasses. And wearable tech in general. Too bad it's all entirely centralized, monetized, and exploited for political gain.
When I learnt about the concept I was immediately in. Even just the option to remind me of people's names would be life-changing, not to mention all the other information and reminders and whatnot not only at my fingertips but right into my eyeballs.
And then Google's glasses came out and were a data privacy nightmare and that day I think I lost another bit of my childhood innocence.
Too bad it's all entirely centralized, monetized, and exploited ~~for political gain.~~ as a fascist surveillance method.
Same. I gave up on the tech future a long time ago.
I love wearables as well and I'm deeply bothered by apple having the best smart watch in terms of sensor quality. Almost all wearables are locked behind one app or an other, the whole scene kind of blows.
I have a Garmin watch and I can't see any benefit for my usage from an Apple watch. Quick reminder that Garmin watches have 10/15 days battery life and decent privacy 😀.
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Wearables could thrive in an open environment. But meta is currently the only big player and I don't think they have the will and corporate capability to open themselves up. They will play in their walled garden and that will cut down on creativity and innovation.
I'm sure the people who have them love harvesting data for AI training since that's what they are clearly for.
What's the difference between these glasses and a dashcam? Both are around to protect yourself.
It's hard to creep on women with a dashcam.
Take a look at all those dashcam subreddits and Youtubes and you will see that dashcams can also be problematic. There are so many videos showing random persons doing something on the street or people having medical issues. And there are also those creepy stalker sexual harassment accounts who are filming women in public with their cams
Wait, they arent (don't have to be) designed with minimal storage for only a few seconds, only accessible after a crash?
Lol no, why would they? They're just compact video cameras. No one is gonna spend extra money for a camera that only works in an accident.
Which is their sole reason for existence. Also, that wouldn't fly here.
I was in an accident once. Another driver did a blind right turn into the center lane in front of me, past a stopped bus in the curb lane. There was no issue assigning fault because the bus driver had a dash cam with the ability to record on demand. If things worked like you would like, that wouldn't be the case.
There are perfectly valid reasons to record dash cam footage other than an accident you are personally a part of. And any issues you have with dash cams could be almost as easily, if not more easily, done with another camera-based device.
Yeah, it's creepy and weird, but we already have cameras watching and recording your every move. I don't see how this really changes anything.
We probably can't stop it from happening, but we can make it very socially unacceptable, and we can make some behaviors illegal.
I remember back in the early 2000s, when MiniDV cameras got popular.
They were all obviously a camera just based on the look, they had an obvious lens cap, and even a clear record light so that people could see that they were being recorded.
It is insane that we have done away with all of that, and are actively camouflaging cameras in every day items.
Smart glasses should be banned.
What we need is regulation. These companies will not show ethical behaviour on their own.
See e.g. right to repair, USB-C.
Regulation with fines exceeding the profits made on the product.
No more static fines, or fines that are anything less than 100% of the profits made on breaching the regulations.
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It seems like soon enough people will start recognizing the things, they're pretty distinctive with the two little circles and heavy frames. I know I would spot them if they were right in front of me.
So, how to NOT look like a perv, if you need to wear glasses, like I do? Wear thin frames, which is what I do now.
Glasses with high correction don't look that great with thin frames IMO. Even when you get thinner lenses, there still quite thick on the edges.
Thin frames also have kind of an uncanny effect when the lenses warp the size of your eyes a lot. Better have a bulky, obvious thing instead.
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