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ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you

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  1. partiallypro · · focus · HN ↗
    I think the panic around smart glasses cameras is so strange, it's SO much easier to be a creep with a phone recording. You'll see it all the time if you're paying attention. Everyone is already on their phones anyhow, and especially with "creep shots" your head is a massive giveaway; with a smart phones, not so much, it can be placed anywhere. What practically could someone record without their knowledge that isn't already widely and more easily available through a smartphone? I just don't get it.

    I do understand recording maybe during a sexual act or something without knowledge, but even that is probably just as easy with a phone. Feels like everyone is focusing on the wrong thing, given that level of privacy has already been eradicated and no one is going to give up their phones.

    1. mattnewton · · focus · HN ↗
      Your phone has to be out of your pocket and raised up to record me, which I can notice.
      1. solenoid0937 · · focus · HN ↗
        You can't notice a bright blinking light on someone's face?
        1. mattnewton · · focus · HN ↗
          It is less noticeable in person than a phone out and pointed at you yes. And I would react similarly.
          1. bennyelv · · focus · HN ↗
            Disagree. It’s very context dependent which would be more noticeable.

            Maybe the reason you think it’s harder to spot when you’re being recorded on glasses is because… it’s never actually happened to you. The people who are creeps are in the minority, and they’re executing their creepy behaviour independently of the technology available to them.

            1. mattnewton · · focus · HN ↗
              It has happened to me actually with the snap spectacle things.

              Idk why we’re acting like people are hysterical the dangers of always on displays and cameras versus phones that go in pockets have been debated for over a decade now with Google glass. People do not like it for legitimate reasons.

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