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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media (www.404media.co)
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The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

more at: @feed@404media.co

https://tech.lgbt/@yjeanrenaud/116122129025921096

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[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The main differences I can think of are:

  • Better video quality
  • More normalized
  • Easier to get your hands on
  • They look like raybans and are brand name
  • They're debatibly "cool"
  • Also Facebook is involved

Basically they produce better video and are more normalized in society.

[–] nednobbins@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

They can produce better video than some cameras but not as good as others. 12MP ultrawide is pretty standard on security cameras and they're already all over the place.

Do you think that the current smart glasses are making surveillance more normalized or do you think that they're getting more common because we've already normalized constant surveillance?

I'd point out that the PATRIOT act passed a quarter century ago with only one "No" and one abstention.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Let's see how "cool" and "normalized" they are when police arrest the first guy recording around a playgound.