Remember when people got punched for wearing Google glasses?

Peppridge farm remembers

Yeah that wasn’t humanity’s brightest moment.

Stopped this bullshit for a decade or so

Stop advocating violence against people who might be recording video in public, just because the device doing it is on their face.

It’s easy to see someone holding up a camera or cell phone making it obvious they are recording. If you don’t want to be recorded, you can just stay the fuck away from them. You can’t avoid cameras/recording devices you can’t see. Fuck meta, and fuck anyone else wearing their garbage, privacy invading glasses.

Yeah, it’ll be really hard to spot the giant dorky glasses with the laser beam recording LED.

Of course, in practice you don’t behave differently when you spot someone holding their phone up in the street, because you’re already behaving like you’re being watched because you’re in fucking public.

People with legal issues, immigration issues or violent exes will absolutely dip if they see someone recording. I have none of these problems and I will always avoid gettIng recorded by randos if it’s easy to do so. I can’t reasonably avoid every Ring cam in my neighborhood but I will happily slide 10 feet to the left to avoid becoming collateral damage in some dbags insta reel.

So you can do the same thing when you see someone wearing the glasses, then. You won’t always be able to spot them, of course. Just like you can’t spot if someone’s filming on their phone all the way down a train carriage, or in a crowd.

If your immigration and law enforcement agencies are so awful (I assume most people here are American, and so they are) that normal people recording videos risks harm to people who haven’t done anything wrong, then it seems like the focus should be on that first, and video recording in general second.

People in this thread want to punch wearers of smart glasses because they hate Zuck. They all have issues if their rage comes out that way.

If I spot one in a public place, and I start filming them while shouting “Are you recording a video right now with these smartglasses?”, I guess that would be totally fine, right? No reason to make them uncomfortable, because they’ll be in their right.

Yeah, that would be very different than punching them, obviously?

It’s absolutely legal to film them as you said, and it is absolutely legal to speak up. If that makes them uncomfortable, that’s entirely their problem, isn’t it?

Making people uncomfortable is not solely the problem of that person, no, but it would be entirely inappropriate for the glasses-wearer to respond by punching the person making them feel uncomfortable.

I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say here. “Being made to feel uncomfortable” is on a completely different level than being physically assaulted.

You’ll understand when you’ll be surrounded by parents wondering if you’re secretly filming or taking pics of their kids.

And why will they think that? Is it because I may have a phone in my hand, because I do use a phone quite a lot, and they can be used to film people.

If you orientate your phone with cameras towards people, they’ll assume you’re taking pics or filming. Otherwise, it’s a general purpose device.

If you wear creep-glasses designed to secretly take pics or film people, a lot of people will assume you’re secretly taking pics or filming.