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Extortion Using Smart Glasses Is a Thing Now
(gizmodo.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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If I ever see someone wearing smart glasses near me I will slap them off their face.
No you won’t.
You think battery is acceptable but not illegal recording?
you don't consider deliberately invading people's privacy a form of assault?
that's fucking cute.
It may well be in certain conditions. But if someone is assaulting you and you defend yourself, that isn't battery. So I'm not sure how it relates to my point.
If you just go smack the glasses off someone's face because you don't like them, you are the asshole
you want to invade people's privacy casually, and not have them react. so smacking it is, when I see glassholes like you, hands are gonna fly.
Privacy in public spaces is not a thing and never was. For a good reason to.
ah yes, there's only space that's private or public, there's never any appropriate shades of nuance.
wonder how people would feel about you filming their kids' school. or at the gym, or waiting in dr's office, etc., etc.,
people should have the right to not be creeped on by shitty assholes.
Yes, that's why there are harassment laws.
Schools and gyms are not public spaces you dildo
You got downvoted but you're right.
I know
cool, so it's a no moderation free fire zone.
Look, you unreconstructed whelp of a whore, the law only helps if you can get the police state to react in time. What, you gonna call 911 for the slave catchers to come every time you see a pair of glasses? because if they've deactivated the recording light (WHICH, YO, DUMBFUCK, THERE'S A VIDEO OF SOMEONE LOOKING FOR THIS SERVICE IN THIS POST'S COMMENTS) how would you know whether or not they're upskirting your daughter on the fucking escalator?
You're either so smoothbrained you lack the imagination required to make that tiny leap, or, you're advocating on behalf of the fucking perverts, and should be cast into the bowels of hell with all the other kiddy diddler pervert shitbags.
GET FUCKED WITH A BLOWTORCH YOU SUBHUMAN SHITBAG
Those are not public spaces? There might be shades of nuances, but they are at least not found in your examples.
I can at least agree with the creepy assholes part, where it is justified.
the mall's public. if some creep upskirts your wife/kids there, guess that's just fine huh?
With these glasses?! That would be really funny in a "wtf are you doing" way.
Can you imagine it? "just a moment ma'am gonna take a quick picture "sticks his head up her skirt""
never used an escalator huh?
no, really. there's shit tons of upskirt camera shit all over; when you can simply take off your glasses and hold them at your side, angled upward, it's not a stretch.
cameras everywhere; phones, CCTV etc their is no expectation of privacy in a public space.
Recording police beating someone should be allowed for example, yet you'll go over and slap the glasses off their face as they record the cops beating someone to respect the cops right to privacy?
Wow, what a great spinner of strawman tales you're growing up to be!
No, it's the perv at the bar looking down blouses, it's the creepazoid on the escalators looking up skirts. It's the animal spending far too much time loitering around your kids' school entrance.
See, two can play imagination!
But only one of our examples is actually a thing, eh? Your example has never happened. My examples have happened over and over again with PHONES. ffs
Buses, trains, and subways. No one expects the dude sitting across the car to be filming up their skirt. Well, they might, but it would be more obvious in the past.
yup. it's disgusting we have to spell out 'pervs are already doing it, you're just improving their pervert equipment for higher production values you sick fucks'
So much straw
fwiw I think you are completely right for asking this. Violence-loving freaks around here, sometimes.
Some people are in need of violence.
Ah yes, troglodyte diplomacy.
You can enjoy feeling superior all the way to the camps if you prefer
Nice threat.
You sound fragile.
The right to privacy is important
Yes, I agree. So is the right to not have your shit rocked out in a public street because someone doesn't like the shape of your camera
If someone breaches any part of the social contract, it seems a little rich to for them to lean on its protections while they're doing it.
What part of the social contract is being breached by filming in public with a glasses shaped camera vs a regular camera
I don't think the shape of the camera matters half as much as:
Those actions are seen as aggressions by many, many people, as can be seen in the fallout from the original Google Glass, because there is an implicit desire to frame the target as guilty of something.
I'm sure this part is obvious now as it follows directly from above, but unprovoked aggressions violate the social contract, and brandishing cameras or surreptitiously recording people are widely regarded as aggressions.
Wait, who says battery is unacceptable across the board? Has anyone ever taken that position?
I mean, Mohandas Gandhi thought so.
Nah
"Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission."
If I catch a glasshole directing their gaze at me, I'll beer batter them, them deep fry them, head, glasses and all.
Ok, that's murder but you do you
Typical vegan reasoning! /s
Doubt
what about people with phones ? how does recording a video, or taking a photo in a public place justify violence?
The problem is it’s typically more obvious when someone is taking a phone video
Yeah, that phone in my shirt pocket set to record really gets noticed... by exactly nobody.
Yeah, I do this all the time actually. Grocery shopping and the wife wants to FaceTime? Shirt pocket. No one even gives it a first glance, never mind second.
If you use a wide-angle-lense on a samsung, you can be angled 45 degrees away from your target.
All recording devices need to make it abundantly obvious you're recording and have interlocks so that if those ways are defeated, it's noticed and they refuse to record.
Are you sure you'd be able to tell? These people are actively looking for ways to disguise these things so that you can't tell that they're wearing them.
You'll assault them?
Like all those maga people who hate pedophiles (apparently)