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If you own glasses that record people without their consent, we can't be friend, and please don't talk to me.
Bo Morgan@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.
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.
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.
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.
@neptune22222 It doesn't have to be glasses then. It could be an offline camera wore in the neck using bright colors, and with clear warnings to people around that this device is recording but doesn't share data externally and is an assistive device. There are ways to build assistive technologies without infringing other people's rights and safety and feeding mass surveillance.
Forkidork@Em0nM4stodon @neptune22222 r
Really??
And why not a fucking jester's hat with bells too?
I can picture the sanctimonious masses stoning blind people shouting "glass hole!"
We're going to have a field day! ♥️
That's hilarious. I was thinking more of a branding bright color, like my white cane, which I've chosen a bright orange tip to show my remaining low vision. Being a proud member of the blind community is relatively new to me as I've only been using my white cane with orange tip for about a month, but I love it so far. These are huge privacy and security issues with no simple solutions that I see. From a medical perspective, they are critical to resolve.
@neptune22222 @Em0nM4stodon
It really pains me to hear about that and I admire your positive attitude. I wish I had it myself for some lesser challenges that I face... Thanks for setting the example, really
As for the privacy concerns:
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I think there are much better targets of this fury. Like people placing cameras on their dashboards, insurance companies that require them, tourists filming everything (Yeah, I can seen them, so what? what can I do about it? Never leave home?)
I think there are much better targets of this fury. Like people placing cameras on their dashboards, insurance companies that require them, tourists filming everything (Yeah, I can seen them, so what? what can I do about it? Never leave home?)
@neptune22222 @Em0nM4stodon
I think it's petty and cruel to deny a helpful device so badly needed by some for this reason. And it's not just blind people - cognitively impaired people, for instance? The damage is not proportional to the benefit they think to be obtaining.
And I think it's become the classic object of culture wars; a dissempowered, very small group that is more satisfying to target than things like YouTubers or Palantir. Get your hate priorities right, people...