If you own glasses that record people without their consent, we can't be friend, and please don't talk to me.

#Meta #RayBan #CreepGlasses #Consent #Privacy

@Em0nM4stodon What about recording ICE and police?
@neptune22222 Use your phone.
@Em0nM4stodon What if my glasses are FOSH, secure and private?

@neptune22222 If you're filming people without their knowledge and consent (unless it's in the public interest like recording police work), this is still wrong and creepy.

And even for public interest reporting, your camera should be visible.

@Em0nM4stodon

Right, I'm just making the point that whether it is a phone or glasses makes no difference.

@neptune22222 Yes, it does. People don't assume you are filming them when you are just wearing glasses. Most people with a rectangle pointed at them will suspect you might be filming them. The fact that it's disguised as glasses to record people without their knowledge matters a lot.

@Em0nM4stodon

People walk around with their phones in front of them, as if they are video chatting, all of the time.

If someone is secretly recording video and audio of other people, that's creepy, independent of form factor.

@Em0nM4stodon

It's a slightly separate topic, but I'm interested in building and selling FOSH headsets for low vision people to see better. It's an accessibility medical product idea with important privacy and security considerations. The product *could* record people in a creepy way, if it is built in an insecure and non-private way, but it's important to establish non-creepy glasses for these purposes and other useful purposes.

@Em0nM4stodon Recognizing that Facebook should be boycotted in general is also a good idea, but also unrelated to glasses.