• Riskable@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Let me take a moment to state a universal truth: There’s no such thing as “too much regulation.” There’s just good regulation and bad regulation.

    Want to regulate a category of technology that covers, “glasses with built-in cameras”? Ok! We’ll just mount the camera somewhere else.

    Or perhaps you want to regulate cameras that have lenses too small to notice from say, a dozen paces? Well, that would ban cameras on smartphones.

    Why not ban strapping smartphones to your head while you’re at it? That’s basically what these glasses are, after all.

    Tell us: What, specific regulations would you be looking for?

    • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net
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      12 hours ago

      Tell us: What, specific regulations would you be looking for?

      I want people to have the ability to walk down the street without some fuckass with a camera, hidden or otherwise taking a live recording of them without thwir explicit consent, FOR ANY REASON.

      Thats it.

      It was bad enough when these people would walk around waving their phone cameras at everything while they were tourists or wanna be ‘influencers’, now these companies are making it harder to pick them out of the crowd (though those glasses are very distinctly ugly)

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        11 hours ago

        I can’t accept a world like this. No one has a right to privacy when out in public and especially not police who are on duty or government figures.

        You’re just asking for a brutal police state with that attitude.

        Note: Recording != Logging everything into a database. That’s an entirely separate issue.