Not a fan of regulation in general, but would love to see a ban of cameras on glasses used in public spaces.

pxc 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The most important real use case of devices like this is as accessibility tech. Blind people everywhere are talking about devices like this.

It's the same with phones. I know blind people who have been harassed for holding their phones up to things as though they are taking pictures, but in fact they're using the camera on their phone to render signage legible to them, or having their phone (or a person on the other end) read it.

Banning this in a way that doesn't in practice cause problems for visually impaired people would be difficult. It might also be difficult to do in a way that doesn't harm, for instance, accountability for cops who are acting in public.

The impulse to "ban" is sometimes a bit naive imo.

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stronglikedan 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	jnovek 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		“You're already being recorded everywhere you go in public by the authorities” You are the frog being boiled.
	▲	stfp 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		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)
	▲	applfanboysbgon 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> 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!
	▲	Retr0id 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The problem is if it becomes socially normalized. If you're using a concealed camera and someone notices, you're a creep/asshole.
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	▲	intended 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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?

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schnitzelstoat 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If anything they should be banned in private spaces, like if someone wearing them enters someone's home etc.

There is no expectation of privacy in public.

	▲	ldoughty 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The owner of the private space generally has authority to deny this already, there's no need for an additional law. In the US at least, any private homeowner/renter can deny entry to their property, barring legal warrants and exceptional circumstances. A business can have a policy, and is generally legally protected as long as the policy is 1) equally applied, and 2) does not violate ADA... A court would have to weigh in if glasses are allowed or not for ADA... but I suspect there's already a case where a movie theater banned such glasses and they would probably(?) win, since such individuals could be expected to have non-recording glasses.