In recent weeks the devices, dubbed “pervert glasses” by some critics for their capacity to film in secret, have inspired two Australian petitions calling for restrictions on their sale and import which attracted tens of thousands of signatures.
Now the Greens, with support of independents, plan to launch a bill when parliament next sits to halt the import of such glasses as well as other wearable recording devices for at least 12 months, until tougher privacy protections are passed into law.
“If we end up having millions of these devices in the country, there’ll be no place that’s free for your privacy,” Greens senator David Shoebridge said.
“Right now it’s glasses, but in a month’s time it’s almost certainly going to be earbuds, maybe it’ll be a lapel pin, maybe it’ll just be your T-shirt, I don’t know”.
He said parliament had a narrow window of time to block their large scale importation before such devices “wash through society”.
“Maybe we should think ahead for once,” Senator Shoebridge said.
I was thinking it would be better if they had a big 1990’s camcorder style red light on them when recording but this’ll do I guess
Gopro’s are still obvious enough
The Facebook ones do have a light, but there are guides online to show you how to cut the cable to disable it.
should be hardwired, if the cable is cut the camera doesn’t work
As long as you have physical access you can’t stop a determined person disabling a led.
what about monitoring voltage to the LED and if it drops then the camera stops?
Just add a normal diode with the same voltage drop. Smd diode can be sub mm scale.