It’s much harder to secretly record someone in any decent quality with a smartphone than with a pair of glasses where you just have to look would be my guess.
By law, smart phones in Japan have to have their shutter sound being hard coded on in the settings to prevent perverts from taking upskirt shoots. I’m not sure how effective it is, but it would at least prevent the casual voyeur. Looks like meta glasses have a recording light, but there are people selling hacking services to disable it and of course it’s being advertised on Facebook Marketplace.
I mean the outrage over smart glasses based on meta selling your data is valid, but the outrage over “perverts recording women” is about as justified as the outrage over “transwomen sexually abusing women in women’s spaces”. Sure it happens, but not nearly as often as it is made out to be.
If we are wrong to tar all trans people with the same brush because of the actions of a few creeps, we ought to be wrong to do so with people who enjoy smart glasses. I don’t own them, but if you had shown me an open source pair of glasses that basically gave me the ability to scan my surroundings for shit I had lost, turn mundane tasks like doing the washing up into video games and record action footage from my bike rides, I would probably buy some.
yeah but the outrage over it makes lemmy posters feel smug and superior and lets them indulge in violent fantasies of beating people up. plus you know, facebook makes them and anyone who uses any product by them is clearly a terrible awful bad person, and not a morally upstanding person, or something. they also love to fantasize about assaulting cybertruck drivers.
because you know nobody can have a legitimate reason for purchasing, using, or enjoying either of these products. they’re all just creepy weirdos or something.
you see it’s only bad when other folks judge and justify violence against groups of people for how they look or how they dress or what they own. when I, a very brave linux using heroic user of the fediverse, do that, it’s all good and justified and correct.
I mean I have been using Linux since before Ubuntu was a thing, but I don’t share most of the views you suggest. Am I the problem? Should I embrace violence and outrage? Would that make me happier?
Yeah, good luck banning smart phones. Are you just a Luddite? I mean I get that smart phones have atrociously problematic aspects to them, but they have been the single most impactful invention of this century and most of our daily life is built around it.
And how will they do that? How will they justify disallowing someone’s ability to call for an ambulance or receive emergency calls from one for whom they function as carer and emergency contact?
You don’t think convention centers have phones on the wall?
Are you talking about phone booths or payphones? How is that going to help if you are in an active shooter scenario and have to run and hide? Are you going to cram into a booth or line up along the walls and make easy target? Again, THINK.
And you think running 100 m to get your cell phone in the lockers outside the event is too far?
In the event of an emergency? With people milling about and causing a panic? YES. In an emergency SECONDS count. I get that you are privileged enough to have never been in one, or never had to train for one, but please - think.
Are they going to ban smarphones too?
It’s much harder to secretly record someone in any decent quality with a smartphone than with a pair of glasses where you just have to look would be my guess.
That and smartphones have multiple other uses.
By law, smart phones in Japan have to have their shutter sound being hard coded on in the settings to prevent perverts from taking upskirt shoots. I’m not sure how effective it is, but it would at least prevent the casual voyeur. Looks like meta glasses have a recording light, but there are people selling hacking services to disable it and of course it’s being advertised on Facebook Marketplace.
I mean the outrage over smart glasses based on meta selling your data is valid, but the outrage over “perverts recording women” is about as justified as the outrage over “transwomen sexually abusing women in women’s spaces”. Sure it happens, but not nearly as often as it is made out to be.
If we are wrong to tar all trans people with the same brush because of the actions of a few creeps, we ought to be wrong to do so with people who enjoy smart glasses. I don’t own them, but if you had shown me an open source pair of glasses that basically gave me the ability to scan my surroundings for shit I had lost, turn mundane tasks like doing the washing up into video games and record action footage from my bike rides, I would probably buy some.
yeah but the outrage over it makes lemmy posters feel smug and superior and lets them indulge in violent fantasies of beating people up. plus you know, facebook makes them and anyone who uses any product by them is clearly a terrible awful bad person, and not a morally upstanding person, or something. they also love to fantasize about assaulting cybertruck drivers.
because you know nobody can have a legitimate reason for purchasing, using, or enjoying either of these products. they’re all just creepy weirdos or something.
you see it’s only bad when other folks judge and justify violence against groups of people for how they look or how they dress or what they own. when I, a very brave linux using heroic user of the fediverse, do that, it’s all good and justified and correct.
I mean I have been using Linux since before Ubuntu was a thing, but I don’t share most of the views you suggest. Am I the problem? Should I embrace violence and outrage? Would that make me happier?
Eh, I’d rather we ban smart glasses and also smart phones. Or establish better protocols to banning photos by default, unless consent is given.
Yeah, good luck banning smart phones. Are you just a Luddite? I mean I get that smart phones have atrociously problematic aspects to them, but they have been the single most impactful invention of this century and most of our daily life is built around it.
No, I have a smartphone. But I realize they are basically wire taps, and it’s important that some spaces don’t allow them.
And how will they do that? How will they justify disallowing someone’s ability to call for an ambulance or receive emergency calls from one for whom they function as carer and emergency contact?
Think.
Lol wut. You don’t think convention centers have phones on the wall?
And you think running 100 m to get your cell phone in the lockers outside the event is too far?
Think
Are you talking about phone booths or payphones? How is that going to help if you are in an active shooter scenario and have to run and hide? Are you going to cram into a booth or line up along the walls and make easy target? Again, THINK.
In the event of an emergency? With people milling about and causing a panic? YES. In an emergency SECONDS count. I get that you are privileged enough to have never been in one, or never had to train for one, but please - think.