It's not a 'general sentiment' or tangent though, it's specifically THE technology that has the potential to make privacy nonexistent.

Funded by the company that in the recent past, got exposed trying to track employees computer interactions and grabbing screens. Not long before that, it was leaked that employees and contractors were watching videos recorded from meta/rayban smartglasses.

I'm a little bit baffled by the defense here. The point of having guidelines is to use your judgement when applying them.

I'm sorry but I have to disagree - I think that's quite a stretch, and an example of how small-specific topics tend to get sucked into the gravity field of big-generic ones, leading to less interesting discussion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

Not only that but the less-interesting discussion usually turns more-indignant, which makes sense once the discussion abandons the actual content of an article (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).