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Re:Nearby Glasses by com2kid on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @12:54AM (#47147840)
Not only that, but smart glasses have terrible recording time limits. A cheap $30 pinhole camera with a SD card will far surpass meta glasses in recording capabilities.

Hidden cameras have been a thing for a long time now. Stick one in a pair of glasses and give it a super short battery life and people freak out...

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Re:Nearby Glasses by nkrisc on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:01AM (#47149119)
Wearing a hidden camera and recording people is also very socially unacceptable. If someone knew you were wearing they would probably also “freak out”.
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Re:Nearby Glasses by itishappy on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @10:23AM (#47152752)
It used to be if you were caught wearing a hidden camera in a department store the police would be called.

Now they're being billed as fashion accessories.

Sorry, but "normalize hidden cameras" isn't a movement I can get behind.

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Re:Nearby Glasses by com2kid on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:02PM (#47157814)
My point is the tech is nothing new.

Every person holding a cellphone up in their hands could also be pointing a camera around at people, a camera with much higher fidelity, computing power, and one that can take much longer videos.

This is just panic about a new form factor. The same thing happened when cell phones came along, with the exact same talking points.

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Re:Nearby Glasses by itishappy on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @07:12PM (#47160019)
Totally agree, but that's not a justification. "We already do a thing you don't like so you won't mind if we do it lot more, right?"

The same talking points still apply to cell phones. I think people who record TikToks in public are similarly gross and I go out of my way to avoid them.

I watched a guy setup a cell phone to record his laps in a pool yesterday. He swam one lap right about a meter from the 15 year-old girl playing with her mom, then climbed out of the pool, shut off his phone, and walked away. The remainder of the pool was open. Should I have called him out? I couldn't decide, and therefore didn't. This is normal now.

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