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I think wearing smart glasses from any ad-tech surveillance company ought to be considered anti-social, and we should normalize ostracizing people who wear these in public. Want to wear them in your own home? Fine. Don't record me. This is now not just surveillance but sousveillance.
I had an interaction like this at Labcentral near MIT a few weeks ago. I was talking to this young kid for a minute before I realized he had those glasses on.
I asked if those are cameras, he said yes. I asked if he’s recording he said now. I told him in any case I find it very off-putting to have cameras in my face and that I’m going to go. Shook his hand and that was it.
I feel like that’s the right way to handle it. I’m sure I’ll need to keep doing it.
Came here to say exactly this. Someone wearing this in public should be considered as a brazen attempt to record others en masse without consent. In fact, it's worse because it's data being harvested for and siphoned to a third party, in real time, entirely for their enrichment.
We already have enough mass surveillance devices. But I suppose two arguments could be made (1) we don't need more of these, or (2) peak surveillance has already been achieved, and adding one more doesn't make any difference.
I think this is a reasonable place to draw a bright, red line. It'll make us look unreasonable if we act unreasonably. What's really harming us is that we don't have a formalized value system from which to engage in rhetoric, nor do we have a standard rhetoric which people can easily engage from and against.