Pervert glasses are here - and we're not ready

We're normalizing the courageous, and morally righteous, act of destroying Flock cameras.

Normalizing the destruction of pervert glasses seems like the next reasonable escalation in that fight.

While it is true that nobody should have an expectation of privacy when in public, that doesn't automatically grant you consent to purposely film people in public either.

Filming with these glasses discreetly in public removes that element of choice. People can't consent or avoid something they can't even see happening, like they could if the filming was done with an action cam or with a phone (held normally). Anyone who thinks that violating consent like that is okay is someone I wouldn't want to hang around with.

And sure, maybe most people using these glasses are honest folks that would never film people without consent, or use them for any kind of malfeasance - but to that I'd say, why should everyone else have be at the mercy of your honesty?

That's not a fair deal, and I doubt most of these glassholes would like to be in the reverse situation of being filmed going about their life without their consent.

I think we should all yell out "Pervert" at anyone we see wearing them in public.

So we're supposed to develop hypervigilance? As someone with cptsd I've been doing that since I was in diapers. It's incredibly taxing for your brain and takes years off your life. Terrible advice. Best thing we can do is publicly shame these people every time we see one. Call them pervert glasses, get mad, if it happens enough times they will get rid of them.

I think a good way to combat this, and it should be done now, would be to convince pretty young girls to pull out their phones and record any glasshole they see, while belittling them. Post that shit on TikTok, and laugh. They'll be in public areas, wherever crowds of young people gather.

If we wait too long, and let these become more commonplace the initiative will be lost.

It was fun while these were just used for sports and actually interesting outdoor activities, it serves me really well while cycling and snowboarding. I gave away the original wayfarer version so my family can experiment with it for accessibility and now I have just the sports version, which hopefully it's too dorky for these pick-up-artist idiots to start popularizing.

Guess I'll have to go back to a go pro in my helmets like a Teletubby… and find a decent combination of open ear headphones and a microphone that works against the wind. sigh maybe if they made a camera-less version that would solve most of it

I don't get how Google glass got laughed out of existence, but people are out there champing at the bit to buy Meta spyware glasses... It's fucking insane.

Watch these creeps wearing garbage glasses make life so much harder for the folks with low vision.

Do they work when driving? Maybe a sunglass version? That would be handier than window mounted cameras and the like. Fuck 'em if all they're for is privacy invasion. Enough of that shit is enough.

For the time being and for quite a while, they'll have thick frames. Computers, batteries, speakers, and cameras aren't going to be affordably microscopic anytime soon.

If we start calling out anyone with thick frame glasses, soon people will stop wearing them, unless they're pervert glasses. In a year or two virtually all thick frame glasses will be pervert glasses. They won't be able to hide.

Back in 2016 I bought several 'dumb' camera sunglasses. Why? I was going to a spy themed nerd convention and I thought having those would fit the theme. I did use some myself when I went on vacation and used them a POV camera and hands free recording of the places and things I wanted recorded.

They were air-gapped. No Bluetooth or WiFi capability. You had to plug them in to get your stuff out. No cloud storage either. You put in a microSD card.

So I do believe they can have utility... But not in the way these people are using it. Not in the 'always on always listening and always on the cloud' bullshit.

We're ready to break them, as a last resort.

As somebody who has been falsely arrested, I would have loved these to prove it. But I get it's a privacy issue...

I wish I could get these glasses without the camera. Playing music, scrolling stuff on my glasses on the train every morning etc. Sounds amazing.

If you didn't speak out this much about government and corporate mass surveillance, then why care anymore about personal surveillance? This seems like a weird hill to finally give a shit about the surveillance state you already accepted all around you. If it's legal and acceptable for government and corporations, it should be accepted for individuals who want to benefit from those technology, too. As someone whose railed against the encroachment of surveillance for two decades to deaf ears, hearing those same ppl whining now garners zero sympathy from me.

You enables a surveillance state when it didn't bother you personally, worsening the world we live in for everyone but now expect support when you finally feel your privacy violated? You helped make this bed, you can sleep in it.