[gorjusborg]

The tendency for people to be creeped out by your surveillance glasses.

If anyone around me wore these, I'd promptly tease them playfully about it, making it clear it's creepy.

I understand that there are folks like yourself that are comfortable with it, but most people are against others walking around and recording.

I hate that they are trying to hide the fact that the glasses are modified. Clearly they understand that the camera must be hidden for it to be socially acceptable.

[seanmcdirmid]

Cops have to wear body cams that are recording continuously (or at least we hope they are). Dash cams are popular...even standard...in places where insurance fraud is rife. How long the hold out will be until wearing a headset recording device is considered normal rather than creepy?

[gorjusborg]

I see your point, but dash cams are recording the road, which is not a place that most people consider private.

An always-present personal recording device is different. People enter and leave areas that others feel are private. In some cases, there are even laws protecting what can be recorded (two-party states in the U.S. for example).

If something like these glasses started to take off, I would expect public backlash and legislation that restricted or prevented its use in certain contexts, which would essentially make them useless (the point is that you wear them all the time).

[eertami]

Depends on the culture, really. Dash cams (& ring doorbells/private security cameras) are illegal in quite a few countries with strong privacy protections.

Even on a public street people have a right to privacy in my country, I couldn't just start taking pictures or video of someone without consent.

[ActorNightly]

If everyone being able to record anyone in public is the way we get people to stop acting like assholes to each other, Im all for it.

[ryandrake]

I think a single trip down Reddit's r/PublicFreakout should be enough to convince you that the ubiquity of cameras doesn't stop people from acting like assholes.

[ActorNightly]

Thats a small minority of incidents. There are a lot more day to day behaviors that people do that are inconsiderate, and if there is a chance of you getting on video, being identified and losing your job, Im all for it. There is no immediate reward for acting good, and very little to no punishment for acting like an asshole.

[inkcapmushroom]

>There are a lot more day to day behaviors that people do that are inconsiderate, and if there is a chance of you getting on video, being identified and losing your job, Im all for it.

Good thing you've never done anything in your life that could be construed as inconsiderate, so this wouldn't affect you.

[JohnFen]

I'm not. It would make me avoid being in public places.

[ActorNightly]

And if more people had the same mentality, it would be great.