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by stronglikedan 56 days ago
Why? What's the difference between that and one of the many, many concealed camera options that you don't even notice? Just that it's noticeable? I don't think that's a good enough reason for yet-more-regulation. You're already being recorded everywhere you go in public by the authorities, and often by people standing right next to you unnoticed, so just act accordingly.
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“You're already being recorded everywhere you go in public by the authorities”

You are the frog being boiled.

Because they will be popular and lots of people will buy them and use them all the time, leading to much more generalized surveillance than the concealed options that only a tiny tiny fraction of people would buy or use (and that we should also regulate)
> What's the difference between that and one of the many, many concealed camera options that you don't even notice?

The latter is literally illegal, at least in my country and I hope in any civilized country. If your point is that there's no difference between glasses and other forms of creep cams and the glasses should be illegal too, I concur!

The problem is if it becomes socially normalized. If you're using a concealed camera and someone notices, you're a creep/asshole.
Yet more regulation? We have regulation for these glasses already?

Aren’t there countries that make it mandatory to blot out faces of people on videos if they didn’t consent?