I know the difference: you’re used to everyone having a phone with a camera. Depending on your age, you may have never known a world without smartphones.
They’re just as easily used to record people without their knowledge as anything else.
Reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote:
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Yet it’s perv glasses that normalize this, not phones. You don’t see people recording you with a phone while buying groceries. But they will film you with their perv glasses. All the time. There are clear differences and you’re being ignorant to them.
I remember when it was rude to take out your phone at spaces where people may want privacy like gay bars, and if you did take it out you visibly kept your finger over the camera. Nowadays only specific sensitive types of places have such rules and it has to be explicitly a rule that’s enforced.
I remember when smartphones were new, there was talk of mandating by law that they made a noise when a picture was taken, to prevent being able to take pictures surreptitiously.
Stop. Nobody should need to explain to you the difference between wearables and something you hold in your hand in these scenarios.
I know the difference: you’re used to everyone having a phone with a camera. Depending on your age, you may have never known a world without smartphones.
They’re just as easily used to record people without their knowledge as anything else.
Reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote:
Yet it’s perv glasses that normalize this, not phones. You don’t see people recording you with a phone while buying groceries. But they will film you with their perv glasses. All the time. There are clear differences and you’re being ignorant to them.
Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Notably, phones don’t have a blinking light to tell you they’re recording.
And I feel like I should mention that you are almost certainly being recorded while buying groceries.
I remember when it was rude to take out your phone at spaces where people may want privacy like gay bars, and if you did take it out you visibly kept your finger over the camera. Nowadays only specific sensitive types of places have such rules and it has to be explicitly a rule that’s enforced.
I remember when smartphones were new, there was talk of mandating by law that they made a noise when a picture was taken, to prevent being able to take pictures surreptitiously.
Yeah but the person has to point it towards you. If they’re doing it, the default assumption is that they’re filming.
Notably, you don’t have to be looking directly at a person to record them with a phone, as opposed to wearing a camera on your face.
I remember people not having cameras. Is pretty obvious when people are recording or taking pictures with a phone
It can be, but it doesn’t have to be.