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Comment by solenoid0937 | Hacker News Reader

These glasses are amazing for capturing memories on vacations, way nicer than using my phone camera.

How convenient, so to hell with the privacy of everyone around you then.

There's a bright blinking light on my face telling them they're being recorded - and they have their phones out and are recording anyways! There are a lot of assumptions baked into your comment.

What's with HN becoming so saturated with snarky cynical one line quips? I don't think I've ever seen a worse comment section.

Its not a battle you are going to win, This is pretty much the state of things but everyone old enough remembers when the same was said about camera phones, Drones and Uber being unsafe. Eventually usage means these comments will fall and then everyone will forget as it becomes normal.

You expect privacy in public?

Why not? Something that can do facial recognition + location tracking + keep and instantly transmit related digital records to a third party should be considered an invasion of privacy even if in public.

Every phone on the planet does this by default today. I don't see the delta between these glasses and someone taking a picture with their Pixel.

Someone capturing a single frame with a phone is smaller in volume, and more easily spotted and socially punished than someone recording video with glasses.

Why is it smaller in volume? Sure that’s the decision of the person and has nothing to do with the device?

When phones first had cameras, and people were not aware, it would have been easier to secretly film. But news flash, where I’m sitting right now in a cafe full of tech workers, nobody would notice if I started secretly filming on my phone.

If I wanted to secretly film, I’d be more confident of getting away with it using my phone than with a set of glasses which have a flashing light on them.

So why not just take a picture with your Pixel, Mr. Bond?

Why not use an abacus to browse the web?

Both items in scope as far as I'm concerned. I'm fine with glasses and uncovered phone cameras in picture-taking position being treated the same way from a privacy violation standpoint. Maybe we can also do something about phone speakers at max volume in inappropriate places as well.

You’ll need to ban all cameras then. None of that is strictly related to glasses with a camera in themZ

Let's do it.

Yes. To an extent.

You’ll have to explain how it’s different to recording something on any other phone or camera system…

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