hey so filming people without their consent is weird. you know that right? filming people you don't know and they aren't aware of what you're doing is creepy. posting strangers online is fucking weird. we're too comfortable with doing it now for shits and giggles, chasing some sort of viral hit instead of reckoning with the fact that you posted someone who did not consent to their body and face being publically used.
we're being pushed these Meta Glasses as if mass surveillance of strangers is fun and normal! it's weird!!! there are already reports that people are using these to film women without them knowing and sharing it to communities who get off on this shit. who else knows who people are filming. these glasses with cameras are not obvious and that is dangerous.
Google already tried this shit a decade ago and it crashed and burned for all the reasons you are saying. I think that an argument could be made by Meta that people are way less concerned with being recorded (or at least are more used to it) now than they were ten years ago in general and they might even right. A second mover advantage.
Still, Google Glass didn’t fail because someone got upset at being recorded but because there were people like lawyers and nurses wearing the things and accidentally recording private conversations. People recorded having sex by accident.
If I’m walking down the street and someone’s Meta Glasses records me… whatever. Idgaf. For starters, it is legal to record in public so they could do the same thing with their phone. It is rude but still legal.
It is not legal for a medical professional to record my chart to their personal device, though. Imagine a person recording jury deliberations. A lawyer recording the judge while they make a ruling in chambers. Even a person recording everything they see at a kink or swingers party, including the faces of all attending.
I’m not sure of the legality of recording without permission in private residences but it sure as fuck is rude as hell and inappropriate. I would not want, say, my apartment complexes maintenance guy to be recording the inside of my apartment while he makes a routine repair. I don’t have anything to hide but it is my private space and none of his business.
