Smart glasses pose new harassment risks for women, researchers find
www.sydney.edu.au
Emerging research from University of Sydney draws on analysis of 350 publicly available Instagram videos from around the world, showing a shift to discreet, point-of-view recording that is difficult for bystanders to detect. Smart glasses often provide no clear signal that recording is taking place, limiting a woman’s ability to consent or opt out.
  • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
    213·
    18 days ago

    I’m pretty sad that people have to be perverts and glasses with cameras got such a bad rep.

    It is deserved and not surprising, and I’m not trying to defend them, but I was so looking forward to AR glasses with cameras, so I could finally get a working ad-block IRL, which should be easily possible with the tech.

    But, that requires a camera. It’s a shame, and I’ll definitely rather continue dealing with ads than support enabling perverts (or Meta, anyway), but it sounded like such a cool use-case.

    I hate how there are always groups who have to ruin everything for others :(

    • magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      18 days ago

      Pretty sure the whole wet dream of the companies pouring money into this tech is to be able to put ads in your face all day long.

      • XLE@piefed.socialBanned from communityEnglish
        6·
        18 days ago

        I was going to say, we barely have open-source cellphone OSes right now, and the most functional ones exist only because a surveillance company gave away their early code in a successful bid for market dominance. Something similar would probably play out for pervert glasses.

    • SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.appEnglish
      61·
      18 days ago

      I had dreams of video game-style navigation with translations and overlays on the world. Instead, I have to keep an eye out for these things anytime I go into a public restroom.