[itishappy]

It used to be if you were caught wearing a hidden camera in a department store the police would be called.

Now they're being billed as fashion accessories.

Sorry, but "normalize hidden cameras" isn't a movement I can get behind.

[com2kid]

My point is the tech is nothing new.

Every person holding a cellphone up in their hands could also be pointing a camera around at people, a camera with much higher fidelity, computing power, and one that can take much longer videos.

This is just panic about a new form factor. The same thing happened when cell phones came along, with the exact same talking points.

[itishappy]

Totally agree, but that's not a justification. "We already do a thing you don't like so you won't mind if we do it lot more, right?"

The same talking points still apply to cell phones. I think people who record TikToks in public are similarly gross and I go out of my way to avoid them.

I watched a guy setup a cell phone to record his laps in a pool yesterday. He swam one lap right about a meter from the 15 year-old girl playing with her mom, then climbed out of the pool, shut off his phone, and walked away. The remainder of the pool was open. Should I have called him out? I couldn't decide, and therefore didn't. This is normal now.