The camera-free glasses, code-named Luna, will still feature an array of six microphones […]
So the glasses will still record innocent bystanders without consent, only without video? That’s not much better. The shaming will and should continue.
No, we shouldn’t shame people for using a device that happens to have a microphone. But we absolutely should shame people who knowingly and flagrantly use recording devices with a complete disregard to other people’s privacy.
Honestly, I personally even barely care about the individual people who do this - that’s been a thing for nearly 20 years now. Don’t get me wrong - secretly filming people is creepy as fuck, and it’s rightly illegal without consent in a lot of places.
But I’m more pissed off about is that beside the individuals, it’s also being saved by corporations on an unprecedented and almost inconceivable scale. But it doesn’t even stop at that massive privacy invasion - that data is then used, processed and extrapolated to wring every known piece of data out of it, to make a profit for those companies. Plus, since it’s stored, they will also use it in the future, in ways we haven’t even considered right now.
All of which without you knowing, or your consent. Creeps are one problem, but imho it’s nothing compared to the companies that actually profit from it.
So the glasses will still record innocent bystanders without consent, only without video? That’s not much better. The shaming will and should continue.
Obligatory: you have been able to record people without consent since the 80s.
Should we shame people with phones if their phone has a microphone?
Where? In my country (Spain) has never been prohibited in public spaces, except in recent years that record the police has been forbidden. ACAB
No, we shouldn’t shame people for using a device that happens to have a microphone. But we absolutely should shame people who knowingly and flagrantly use recording devices with a complete disregard to other people’s privacy.
Honestly, I personally even barely care about the individual people who do this - that’s been a thing for nearly 20 years now. Don’t get me wrong - secretly filming people is creepy as fuck, and it’s rightly illegal without consent in a lot of places.
But I’m more pissed off about is that beside the individuals, it’s also being saved by corporations on an unprecedented and almost inconceivable scale. But it doesn’t even stop at that massive privacy invasion - that data is then used, processed and extrapolated to wring every known piece of data out of it, to make a profit for those companies. Plus, since it’s stored, they will also use it in the future, in ways we haven’t even considered right now.
All of which without you knowing, or your consent. Creeps are one problem, but imho it’s nothing compared to the companies that actually profit from it.