New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses
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1 hour ago
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| politico.com
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whiplash451
1 minute ago
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Why are we even allowing this in Europe? These smart glasses are just plain data collection and surveillance in plain sight. When does the nightmare stop?
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hootz
27 minutes ago
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I do photography as a hobby, especially street photography and related styles, and I constantly question myself on the ethics of photographing people in public without permission, even with my huge ass camera. Meanwhile, we have people running spy cameras in their glasses, and they view that as just a normal thing to do. What.
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Jblx2
8 minutes ago
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I wonder how many surveillance cameras are currently in operation.
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hootz
2 minutes ago
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While they are a problem, they are a different problem from spy cameras capturing you up close for the benefit of a single person. Surveillance cameras are for shady governments and maybe "security", camera glasses are for straight up creeps.
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drdaeman
8 minutes ago
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Glasses’ camera [usually] sits right next to couple more cameras embedded in wearer’s skull. [Almost] nobody has any problem with those.

That strongly suggests me it’s not the cameras that are problematic, but something about what happens to the images.

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hootz
1 minute ago
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I guess people wearing spy camera glasses won't do anything at all with the images! /s
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vkou
6 minutes ago
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Most people understand that the difference between your camera and your eyes is that one records an image, while the other records a very rough description of an image.
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drdaeman
3 minutes ago
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I don’t know how I could’ve made it even more obvious that cameras don’t record anything.
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vkou
8 minutes ago
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Hell, I (like anyone else) grab photos with my phone on vacation, and when I take a picture of a busy market, I do my best to avoid including people in my photographs.

People in places I visit are just trying to live their lives, they aren't some kind of human zoo for me.

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doubtfuluser
32 minutes ago
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I hope Europe does this for real. I’m wondering how this privacy nightmare is eroding our standards so easily.

I certainly see the potential use of such - but the risks coming with such glasses at least in my opinion outweigh these uses..

Pleas, EU, ban this! Iirc there are already spy cams banned anyway in Germany, this should fall into the same category

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everdrive
6 minutes ago
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There's a mad dash right now. Everyone is sprinting as fast as possible to invent and propagate the worst technology possible. Oh, you thought smart phones ruined society? Well good news, smart glasses are finally viable. You just won't believe what they'll come up with next, and everyone will buy it, and everyone will be worse off.
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rimbo789
39 minutes ago
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Good. Finally. These never should have even been prototyped. Fool of an idea.
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ChrisArchitect
12 minutes ago
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thatmf
20 minutes ago
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The one thing I appreciate about smart glasses is that it broadcasts the wearer's terrible personality loud and clear and I can thus avoid them.
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Claudus
31 minutes ago
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Smart glasses are for citizens, not subjects.
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vkou
7 minutes ago
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Citizens have responsibilities to their society, not just the right to be assholes.
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