I’m not necessarily arguing in favor of them, it just seems to me that we as people have found a convenient scapegoat by venting our frustration on the end user, while the real problem is systemic.
As for the future hypothetical, that was meant as a thought excercise on what is likely to come, and how that will fit in with this social climate. It is only gonna get worse from an anti-creep point of view, and seeking to remain anonymous by not getting recorded seems a losing battle. We should be focusing on countermeasures instead, so regardless of if we know the camera is there, we can feel safe®.
I’m not using the people (i.e. the people spoken about in the original post that we are talking on) using this technology as a scapegoat.
I will happily say that without companies producing these privacy breaching products, the people that misuse them would have one less avenue to exploit and violate other’s privacy.
If you want a thought exercise, instead of “Creeps will use them anyway.” How about “If there are laws put in place to protect people’s right to privacy, creeps would be less likely (or at least less able) to commit these offenses with impunity.” Which in my mind is a far better option than “we promise our always-on cameras aren’t used for nefarious means, you can trust us because we are the company that sells the creep glasses.”
The countermeasures you mention- other than laws preventing their use what are they?
This isn’t a matter of feeling safe “even if we’re being recorded” it’s a matter of “being safe because we are not being recorded by those with immoral intentions.”
To put it in simpler terms with a bit of analogy -Better to keep the gun away from the toddler than wait for them to blow their shit smoove off with it.
I am certainly in favor of laws to protect the people, but i suspect as is already the case the legislation will be unable to keep up with technological developments, not to mention nefarious actors lobbying that legislation.
For countermeasures i was already mentally in the realm of cyberpunk, so probably equally technological solutions? Identity spoofers, ECM, if i recall correctly many cameras are vulnerable to infrared? Things in that vein.
I’m not talking about cyberpunk, I’m talking about NOW. This is no fantasy scifi scenario, this is reality.
If we do not fight for our rights tooth and nail the same way people fought for civil rights, then those lobbyists and corporations will have nothing to stop them from making the world a shittier place.
These things are being used today. We need to show the powers that be that this is unacceptable today. Otherwise we as a civilisation will sleepwalk our way right into antihuman technofascism.
I’m not necessarily arguing in favor of them, it just seems to me that we as people have found a convenient scapegoat by venting our frustration on the end user, while the real problem is systemic.
As for the future hypothetical, that was meant as a thought excercise on what is likely to come, and how that will fit in with this social climate. It is only gonna get worse from an anti-creep point of view, and seeking to remain anonymous by not getting recorded seems a losing battle. We should be focusing on countermeasures instead, so regardless of if we know the camera is there, we can feel safe®.
I’m not using the people (i.e. the people spoken about in the original post that we are talking on) using this technology as a scapegoat.
I will happily say that without companies producing these privacy breaching products, the people that misuse them would have one less avenue to exploit and violate other’s privacy.
If you want a thought exercise, instead of “Creeps will use them anyway.” How about “If there are laws put in place to protect people’s right to privacy, creeps would be less likely (or at least less able) to commit these offenses with impunity.” Which in my mind is a far better option than “we promise our always-on cameras aren’t used for nefarious means, you can trust us because we are the company that sells the creep glasses.”
For your reading pleasure;
https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/meta-sued-over-ai-smartglasses-privacy-concerns-after-workers-reviewed-nudity-sex-and-other-footage/
https://natlawreview.com/article/smart-glasses-and-privacy-wearable-surveillance-and-disclosure-issues
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ice-facial-surveillance-glasses
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/immigration-officers-meta-ai-glasses-b2937382.html
The countermeasures you mention- other than laws preventing their use what are they?
This isn’t a matter of feeling safe “even if we’re being recorded” it’s a matter of “being safe because we are not being recorded by those with immoral intentions.”
To put it in simpler terms with a bit of analogy -Better to keep the gun away from the toddler than wait for them to blow their shit smoove off with it.
I am certainly in favor of laws to protect the people, but i suspect as is already the case the legislation will be unable to keep up with technological developments, not to mention nefarious actors lobbying that legislation.
For countermeasures i was already mentally in the realm of cyberpunk, so probably equally technological solutions? Identity spoofers, ECM, if i recall correctly many cameras are vulnerable to infrared? Things in that vein.
I’m not talking about cyberpunk, I’m talking about NOW. This is no fantasy scifi scenario, this is reality.
If we do not fight for our rights tooth and nail the same way people fought for civil rights, then those lobbyists and corporations will have nothing to stop them from making the world a shittier place.
These things are being used today. We need to show the powers that be that this is unacceptable today. Otherwise we as a civilisation will sleepwalk our way right into antihuman technofascism.