Businesses need to start banning smart glasses with cameras or at least require the cameras to be covered with tape.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
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I remember when you couldn't have camera phones a lot of business. Seems like these would be prohibited simply from a security standpoint. Harassment would just be another reason on top of that.
Yeah, literal camera pointed at computer screens, with a view of fingers on the keyboard, and who knows what apps installed with access. Anyone who does that should be fired as they are a danger to the organization.
I was working in a telecom closet on a military base and one of my coworkers called me to ask a question. I had already been told absolutely no photos. A camera in the room picked up the lens on my phone when I answered it and two MPs were dispatched to apprehend me.
I was in the military XX years ago, camera phones were becoming a thing. We were allowed to bring it into camp, just not allowed to take photos. That was before Android time, I was on a dump Samsung flip phone with a 0.x MP camera. 😅
So the apparatus exists to stop this, and they choose not to use it.
People need to start being more violent to gargoyles. You wear rayban, you risk getting popped without warning.
Love the Snow Crash reference. I use it a lot.
I'm so in for this. I am so tired and disgusted about how we let these influencers and content retards allow normal people to be turned into shitposts on the internet. If we started beating the hell out of these little shits a decade ago we woudnt have this problem. Luckely Ive never had anyone ever pull a camera on me in public. But I'm pretty sure I'd go to jail for whatever happens next.
Many places already do this with cellphones. It shouldn't be different for such glasses. Using recording equipment is rarely appropriate in a workplace.
requiring it already even with phones? can I ask what kind of places is it?
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Meta is a menace.
Period.
Full stop.
I hope the glasses break on their face. But:
The two customers were, in fact, recording Hinkle, and the entire exchange was turned into content for social media.
...Can people not see this is the root problem?
These asswipes make a living being asswipes because Google, Meta, or Tiktok pay them to. Thats the root incentive. Most wouldnt risk all that trouble unless it was their living.
In other words, I dont want the moral of the story to be "this wouldnt happen without Meta glasses." The platform subsidizing those glasses is the ultimate problem.
There's also the root problem of employees having no agency to kick out misbehaving people. There's this whole "the customer is king" ethos in American commerce and this is enabling the worst people to harass people without any consequences. If you are getting kicked out and banned from most stores in your town because you are an abusive asshole, you might think again about your behavior and maybe even change. If everything that is coming from your bad behavior is that some random employee is getting fired, yes, this will enable even worse behaviour.
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I see a lot of honest YouTubers who break their backs putting together quality educational hobby content and over time I have followed some as their numbers climb and it turns into more of a full time thing for them.
And then I see these brainrot morons pulling down 1000x the numbers and it’s just crushing. I guess people would rather eat shit than vegetables.
I guess people would rather eat shit than vegetables.
It's not entirely their choice. The algorithm decides what's presented.
It does so based on their inputs though. That doesn’t mean people are entirely in charge, but I think it’s wrong to say they have no involvement and just receive whatever the silicon genie dictates.
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Two problems.
If it weren't for people being creepy weirdos the form factor of a camera really wouldn't matter.
There are plenty of legitimate useful uses for POV video. I suppose this is better form factor than having a GoPro strap to the side of your head.
What if we punished crimes instead of monetizing them? We've had a multimedia Internet for a generation now, we could do this.
"but you don't have an expectation of privacy! no!! you don't have and you shouldn't!!!! 😡😥"
Pervert glasses are also great for corporate espionage
In my line of work you would be terminated on the spot if you wore these to work. I have sections of the facility that a fit bit would get you escorted off site and likely lose your job.
Lucky you. I literally get a camera pointed at my face for every hour I work, and it screams if it thinks I've lost focus. Hopefully our bosses would tell these cameras to get bent, but based on their little rich people concerns over how to pacify the 'lessers,' I'm not hopeful.
AI driver facing dashcam?
My new go to is to stop the conversation, tell them to tell their glasses, out loud, to stop recording. If they dont then that conversation is over.
Period.
the problem is it was already recording you by that time
How many people have these things that you are running into multiple users? I haven't seen one yet
3 or 4 people in the last month. People are buying them like crazy apparently. Bunch a weirdos.
I was chatting with our CEO the other day and the topic of recording glasses came up. He said they are band in the company, and they've had conversations with their lawyers, that also say not to allow them. I was happy to hear that.
band
banned
I like the image of a parade of glasses marching down the marketing isle, playing all kinds of different instruments, much more pleasing.
*aisle ~sorry~
Thank you! (sincerely)
There are legitimate uses for head mounted cameras that track your focus.
There are none for these devices that try to obfuscate their presence.
I hate that I had to retire my Raybans to home use only. They look exactly like meta glasses.
Sucks to lose the investment, but better than being punched in the face for looking like a pervert.
Wonder if Rayban owners can sue them for their money back now that they're unwearable by anyone with sense.
There is only ONE good thing the meta glasses are for and it's blind people. They are immensely useful to help the blind and low vision users to navigate the world. Other than that, they should not able to exist.
As usual the disabled are the first to get hurt by all the bullshit people do. Guarantee one of these lemmy badasses who wants to run around hitting people is going to hit a blind person for just trying to get around.
let the downvotes rain but it does not matter who is uploading data to meta about its unconsenting environment.
I'll never understand why Google Glass were so offensive but these are just fine
Timing. We are being shepherded into the surveillance state.
Started a new job last Monday. Was pleasantly surprised by them having already banned perv glass.
The bar my girlfriend works out has preemptively banned them. They haven't actually had an issue with them but management feel that banning them is good advertising. It probably is too.
"A social internet cleansed of all content that takes advantage of others would be quite empty." I'm not seeing a problem here.
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This was a very good, detailed read, including interviews with real affected people. I recommend anyone skimming the headline to read the full article.
Thanks, it was. And sad that in instances where the wearer could have been help accountable: Sprouts manager and comedy viewer, nothing was done.
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