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Comment by wkat4242 | Hacker News Reader

> and then taking impromptu photos of kids and pets etc that are camera shy.

This is the thing I hate about those. It normalises nonconsensual photography.

Personally people who dislike smart-glasses because of privacy i dont understand... you have no privacy in public and people could be taking pics of you and whoever with their phones. Do you go up to people who hold their phones up and who do whatever they maybe doing with their phones. Do you go up asking if they took a pic of you and ask to delete it?

They're my kids and pets. Problem is that they are not 'don't take my photos' but rather 'oh look what are you holding I am going to focus on that.'

I understand. But for every one of you there's 5 glassholes thinking it's great fun secretly recording people in public places and posting it on tiktok.

This is why everyone hated on google glass. Which had a much more noticeable camera than the ray-bans. I have one myself (the glass, I 3D printed a camera cover for it).

I mean, I get it. But I don't think they do anything that "phone in hand discreetly tilted near chest/stomach" doesn't do. If anything this has a recording light, and I can use both my hands :P Essentially a miniature goPro strapped to my eyes.

>recording people in public places

Honestly at this point if I am in public I just assume someone (or something - cctv's everywhere) is recording me at all times.

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