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I tried Google's 3 new Android XR glasses prototypes, and they're incredible
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Those glasses will have to be illegal to wear in public. You can't legally just walk around recording everybody. Which these glasses do.
You absolutely can. There is no expectation of privacy in any public place except restrooms. You just can record in private homes and of course any private business can set their own rule for recording, but otherwise anybody can record anything in a general public place.
American standards are third world standards, in civilized countries you cannot just record people, it's only generally true if you are in a public street, where there absolutely are situations that are protected by privacy such as accidents. Also if you sit in your car or in a restaurant, those are private situations. Glasses that continuously register what you are looking at, are therefore most likely illegal in such situations.
UK has CCTV everywhere.
UK also isn't in the EU, and lack of protection of privacy was a serious problem when they were.
Take a video camera to a playground full of kids and get back to us.
Look, I know you are trying to make a point and/or troll, but the fact of the matter is that it is perfectly legal to do so. At least in the US. Even if parents don't like it or protest and even if they get some wanna-be-superhero cop to make an arrest, it would just get thrown out in court. As long as it is public property anyone can record or take photos of anyone else.
It's very much not legal to film random children in Europe
Are you sure about that? People already do that using smartphones...
When people do that with smartphones, it's a conscious decision by the user to record whatever they are recording, and it's up to the user to decide whether it's legal.
Google Glasses record indiscriminately, and will also record illegally, for instance in a situation where there has been an accident, where the people involved have privacy protection. Or if you go into a restaurant, where people also have an expectation of privacy that is protected. Or if you are sitting in your car, which is also protected by privacy.
So unless the glasses correctly can account for all privacy situations and stop recording, they should be illegal. And since the privacy situation can only be determined AFTER having actually recorded it, I don't see how they can be legal.
Except maybe in USA, where laws don't matter if you are a tech company.
@Buffalox@lemmy.world @ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com what are you basing this idea that they're constantly recording on? I haven't seen anything that says that is the plan for Google or the case for any current devices and at least for now the battery life concerns are probably something that just prevents it from being a possibility.
It has to be recording at least for temporary storage to "observe" the surroundings as exemplified.
Usually the way Google does that is to use a centralized service to treat the data, that means these recordings are also sent to a server.
This creates immense surveillance potential, and in EU USA and American companies are not considered safe to handle or store such data.
Even if the recording is deleted seconds after, it is still recording, and "someone" could decide to store it permanently based on the content. For instance based on face recognition.
People don't get it.
FBI, CIA, DHS, can access your smart TV, while "off" and use the speakers as microphones to listen to you.
I wouldn't be surprised. Same on phones tablets laptops etc.
@Buffalox@lemmy.world in what demonstrated uses is it doing that? I've only seen it observe when asked to in any of the demos and that's certainly how Meta's current glasses do it - you have to request it to take a look.
Meta's live AI mode does let you have a continuous conversation about your surroundings but that something that you also have to ask for on purpose and that will consume a considerable amount of battery.
@Buffalox@lemmy.world I'm not saying these companies wouldn't want to have it constantly on if they could though, Meta already made a video where they showed that it is exactly what they'd like to do at some point in the future if the hardware was able to.