Our culture has definitely changed from when Google Glass wearers were referred to as Glassholes.
It appears that more people have just accepted that they will be filmed anywhere and everywhere.
I miss the old days.
It appears that more people have just accepted that they will be filmed anywhere and everywhere.
I miss the old days.
Meta glasses are known as perv glasses. People are actively destroying flock cameras all over.
I'd say no.
Yet conversely, it's not illegal(criminal) to use binoculars to peer. Still, you can get an injunction(civil) if it's a common thing, because then it moves into harassment. Restraining orders have been given. So then the question is, why is this a thing for your neighbour peering at your house with binoculars some of the day, but not for a camera doing the same 24x7? EG, a Ring camera pointed at your house, with sufficient resolution to act as binoculars?
I really wish 'viewing someone with a camera' remotely, was looked at more from the frame of 'is it the same as using binoculars'. EG, is there a zoom lens on the camera, or just as important, is it of sufficient high resolution that it can act as a zoom lens in software.
I'd like to see a court case push back against that.
I've found with technology, that everyone from judges to lawyers seem incapable, at the start, of considering it with an analog, uh, analogue. Almost all cameras are as binoculars today.
Why Google Glass Will Be A Hit. The High School Girls Love Them.
https://soundcloud.com/scobleizer/why-google-glass-will-be-a...
Really, in Scoble's big head, that's what actually makes creepy surveillance technologies successful and worth all the costs and downsides: that high school girls love them??! They must really love Flock cameras then! Well at least their corrupt cop ex-boyfriends do.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/26/us/flock-kentucky-police-...
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/26/us/flock-cameras-surveill...
Considering the shower photo, his personality, his entire career of being a shallow vapid yapping technology cheerleader and wanna-be gatekeeper who never accomplished anything himself beyond manufacturing the attention he is so starved for, and his sexual harassment scandal where he plugged his own new "LightPitch" Attention Manufacturing Startup in his horrible non-apology apology (actually a denial and counterattack) after his previous colleague Shel Israel parted ways in disgust, this "The High School Girls Love Them" recording sure didn't age well.
The aging dot-com-era digerati in his old-boys' network still circle the wagons around him, pretending none of this ever happened. (You know who you are!)
Non Apology Apology, Denial, Counterattack, and Gratuitous Startup Plug titled "No, of that I’m innocent.":
https://web.archive.org/web/20171025173150/https://scobleize...
LightPitch: Helping startups get attention: I, Robert Scoble, have a passion for products, and have spent the last 20 years helping others tell the story of their products. Now you can benefit from my experience.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171025180030/http://lightpitch...
Robert Scoble and Me (medium.com/quinnnorton)
https://medium.com/@quinnnorton/robert-scoble-and-me-9b14ee9...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15511285
Robert Scoble: I didn’t sexually harass women, as I lacked power over them. Scoble claims sexual harassment “has to do with the power position.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/robert-scoble-i-...
Robert Scoble Blog Post Gives Crash Course in How Not to Apologize.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/robert-scoble-writes...
Robert Scoble doesn't know what sexual harassment is. It's not about 'making or breaking' someone's career.
https://mashable.com/article/robert-scoble-sexual-harassment
Scoble Isn’t Sorry. The famous tech blogger just showed us everything you shouldn’t do when you’re accused of sexual assault.
https://slate.com/technology/2017/10/robert-scobles-blog-pos...
Larry Page on Robert Scoble’s Google Glass stunt: ‘I really didn’t appreciate the shower photo’
https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4333656/larry-page-teases...
The guy who ruined Google Glass with a shower selfie is at it again with Snapchat's Spectacles
https://www.businessinsider.com/robert-scoble-wears-snapchat...