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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media (www.404media.co)
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The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

more at: @feed@404media.co

https://tech.lgbt/@yjeanrenaud/116122129025921096

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[–] privatepirate@lemmy.zip 32 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Can we not call everyone we don't like pedophiles? It lowers the impact of the word when it's used against an actual pedo. It also makes it harder to reason with those people because they just think of you as name callers.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry bro, I'm still calling you that if you are wearing these glasses.

It's not a stretch

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/tabloid/hyderabad-chronicle/watch-out-creeps-in-smart-eyewear-1938632

https://sfist.com/2025/10/03/here-come-the-creeps-meta-ray-ban-glasses-dudebro-stalking-women-at-usf-posting-videos-of-them-to-social-media/

https://evrimagaci.org/gpt/bbc-breakfast-exposes-secret-smart-glasses-filming-scandal-523718

I don't think highly of people that choose to partner with these companies to sacrifice both their own privacy and that of those around them.

You call them what you want to call them, but I think the negative stigma here is good.

[–] privatepirate@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

It's a huge stretch. Most of the people buying these glasses are just interested in technology, see this cool new thing, and are ignorant to privacy because they already use social media and whatnot. Creeps use phones to take underskirt pictures of girls too, so are you going to go around calling every phone owner a creep? People like you who see ignorant "normies" as malicious enemies are what's wrong with the privacy community. Like I said earlier, we should educate, not name call.