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RockBottom@feddit.org to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media

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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media

www.404media.co

RockBottom@feddit.org to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1812149/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby-404media

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media’s coverage of how people are using Meta’s Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

more at: @[email protected]

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    Then they started making mandatory sound effects when a picture was taken… until they stopped doing that?

    They never stopped in Japan

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      Good point, because of privacy protection laws, exactly the kind of laws we would need to pass to do something about this issue.

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        How effective is it really? People who want to do that will find a way.

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          Unfortunately true, there will always be a workaround.

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