Dan YorkFirst time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.
Frang 
Wiredfire@frang @danyork I agree with the sentiment BUT do consider that tech like this is utterly *transformative* for those with visual impairments. Was speaking with a guy the other day with a form of macular degeneration and it had given him so much. Not that that’s why they exist, but let’s not be ignorant of the minority for which these can be incredible.
Now if only we could get the tech from places that aren’t abusive of the data collected..
bignose@wiredfire
> Now if only we could get the tech from places that aren’t abusive of the data collected.
Yes. And until that is reliably achieved for all people, we must not allow their use where people have not actively consented to a privacy-hostile corporation recording them, no matter how transformative it is for one person.
Glossy@wiredfire @frang @danyork to be fair the sign says to ask first so with an ask and a bit of explanation I'm sure a reasonable compromise can be made.
@B22_SSS @frang @danyork kinda - it says to ask before taking pictures (absolutely right) but still a hard no on smart glasses, which I totally get. Of course if they had “except for those with visual impairments” suddenly everyone would claim they’re blind and asking people to prove it is wobbly ground(!).
As I say, I just hope the pioneering of the tech can move into a space where it can be genuinely helpful to people rather than make glorious stakeholder profit 😒
@wiredfire @frang @danyork I think everyone claiming they're blind just to get around the rule is mostly an american problem as people in Europe & the UK are generally better about such things.
I can agree that big corpo needs to stop doing a lot for the betterment of shareholders rather than customers/users though I can see how beneficial the technology is for the disabled.
Insufferable fools are everywhere though they are (for now at least) the minority.