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1. jimbo456 · 1790253899 · focus · HN ↗

   We need to move beyond just banning these glasses - all smart glasses of all kinds - to breaking up these companies. Undo the acquisitions of Insta and Whatsapp - I don't care that will be expensive, thats a shareholders problem.

   1. acd · 1790254799 · focus · HN ↗

      We should together stop calling devices which film in dressing / locker rooms smart.

      These devices record video & sound track serve Ads and do Data fusion

      What if you took a cam corder to a locker room? People would be upset, that is not allowed. That would not be nice. This is not nice either

      1. cogman10 · 1790255163 · focus · HN ↗

         Much like a cell phone, nobody would even really care if you brought a camcorder down so long as you aren't operating it (which is very obvious).

         What makes these things gross is that it's not obvious when someone is recording.

         1. b112 · 1790256887 · focus · HN ↗

            I agree we should do something in this instance, but with the speed of which things are changing? Eventually, this tech is going to be undetectable.

            "Oh no that's sci-fi and decades away", I really don't think so. I think neuralink, and competitors too, will next move on to reading the visual cortex. They already have plans to push data to the visual cortex, to enable the blind to "see", reading in healthy people seems quite doable.

            I expect something like this to happen before 2030.

            Regardless, I agree for now? Yes. But the future? I don't see it as blockable forever.

            There are two ways we decide how severe the punishment for broken laws is. One is to enable just punishment. The other is deterrent. This may fall into "deterrent is the bigger part of the sentence", where people posting private information receive years in jail as a result.

            There is a little bit of a conversation about this here:

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gc.ca&#x2F;eng&#x2F;rp-pr&#x2F;other-autre&#x2F;cndii-cdncii&#x2F;p6.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gc.ca&#x2F;eng&#x2F;rp-pr&#x2F;other-autre&#x2F;cndii-cdncii...

            And the above certainly covers Meta glasses too.

            I think it won&#x27;t be long before it&#x27;s the posting of non-consensual imagery that is so criminal, that few will do so. For years in Quebec, sharing of images captured in public isn&#x27;t really legit. You control &quot;images of yourself&quot;, regardless of where they are taken, public places or not:

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;educaloi.qc.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;capsules&#x2F;your-right-to-control-photos-and-videos-of-yourself&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;educaloi.qc.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;capsules&#x2F;your-right-to-control-pho...

            And they&#x27;re so worried about problems with image sharing, they&#x27;ve almost automated the process to deal with it:

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quebec.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;justice-and-civil-status&#x2F;support-victims-crime&#x2F;non-consensual-sharing-intimate-image" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quebec.ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;justice-and-civil-status&#x2F;support-vi...

            So this is already being criminalized in a lot of places.

            1. order-matters · 1790265749 · focus · HN ↗

               &gt;to enable the blind to &quot;see&quot;

               Please watch this ad to enable 5 minutes of premium color vision!

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