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Smart Glasses Would Legally Require a Recording Light Under Proposed Law (gizmodo.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@piefed.social

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Lawmakers are once again turning up the legal heat on smart glasses. Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Ciresi (D-Montgomery) has introduced a bill that would require every pair of smart glasses “manufactured, sold, and used” in the state to have a “visual indicator” that tells others when they’re recording.

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[–] zwerg@feddit.org 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can still cover the LED. I don't trust these things or the creeps that buy them. They should be illegal.

[+] homes@piefed.world -11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not every WebCam circuitry is designed with your safety and privacy in mind.

If it makes you feel better, cover it up.

[–] zwerg@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I get to choose my web cam and if I cover it. I have no control over what the owner of these glasses does with them - or whatever they capture. These are practically custom made for upskirt creeps and god knows what else.

[–] homes@piefed.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I was just using WebCams as a contemporaneous technological example. Not to equate the two, as they are, as you have illustrated, extraordinarily different in their contextual applications.

These glasses creep me the absolute fuck out, and have for over a decade, ever since Google glasses first came out. I think they should just be outright outlawed, but that’s not the world we live in.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree with everything else you've said in this thread, but if someone is getting upskirt recordings of you with their glasses ... Hopefully you'd notice.

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Someone holding a pair of glasses in their hand, just casually letting them dangle below waist-height, does not seem that immediately suspicious to me