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[-] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 day ago

People lost their shit about Google Glass, claiming users would be able to take pics of them without their knowledge, yet they didn't bat an eye at the established creepers doing that already with smartphones and they sure don't seem to care much about Meta putting forth Glass 2.0, now with more invasiveness! An article about it is a good first step, but articles like this about Glass were everywhere, along with a general negative sentiment in the public (and there even were some assaults on people using those things!), yet I rarely hear about these even worse glasses. Do people just not care about privacy anymore?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Do people just not care about privacy anymore?

Correct. Older people still do, but it’s 20 years later now and there are two generations of people who have never had privacy at any point of their lives. So they don’t understand what has been taken from them, and openly declare that they don’t care.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Google Glass was way back in like 2013, 10 years later people just expect to have cameras everywhere in public since nearly everyone now has a good camera in their pocket that they're also using to actually take pics and videos all the time of food, places, buildings, scenery, selfies etc.

Each one of us is probably in the background of who knows many peoples pictures by now

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

I think the problem lies in the underestimation of the potential for that level of personal data. The privacy counter-argument is usually “nothing to hide.” Psychographic profiling is the incredibly accurate practice of predicting an individual’s engagement based on previous choices, and is far more invasive than “telling secrets.”

[-] Maestro@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago

They care, but Google Glass was a lot more obvious to the casual observer than these new smart glasses are.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 5 points 1 day ago

I didn't know these were a thing until just now

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

I feel like google glass was more bad timing, people weren't as used to everyone and their dog carrying a camera all the time back then.

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