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Why should we help corporations set up an unconstitutional surveillance state?

Pretty cool. You can listen yo music, make calls, take pics, etc. If you say "Hey Meta, what am I looking at?", it will tell you what it sees in detail.

Not sure why so many hate this tech, but it's most likely a generation thing.

recording video and/or audio with them, or using them with a facial recognition app to find out who they are and maybe pretend to have met them before. Or try to find out where they live, even before they've given you their name.

They're essentially surveillance devices. What they pick up will be saved by Meta and will become available to the government, if the authorities want it.

People are getting rid of their Ring devices, too.

I wouldn't trust anyone wearing smart glasses.

I saw video on YouTube from someone recording an Oasis concert while wearing smart glasses, and at no point did she tell the people she was talking to that she was recording them from a couple of feet away.

At least if someone is using a smartphone for recording, it's usually pretty obvious.

When recording or looking, it omits a bright light, letting anyone know that it is being used. Also, Ray-Ban Meta glasses do not have built-in facial recognition technology that identifies people.

I've have Ring too. Why are people getting rid of it? What's it gonna see, me leaving for work? Maybe getting the mail? Just wear pajamas and it won't be an issue.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/meta-plans-to-add-facial-recognition-to-its-smart-glasses-report-claims/

And even without it being built in, there are facial recognition apps that anyone wearing smart glasses can use.

People don't like being surveilled and recorded by just anyone they meet, anywhere.

And people who want to record others without them knowing are creeps most people wouldn't want to know.

Editing to add that in the current political climate, no one should trust a stranger wearing smart glasses.

From your link:

Also, there are no outside apps that are official that you can download, at least without rooting your device.

No comment about the the light that goes off that alerts others that it's recording? I guess you missed it.

they've already tested smart glasses recording strangers and discovered people don't notice the light.

No AI user deserves wearable AI at the expense of the privacy of everyone they meet.

They're a violation of other people's rights.

It's against the law in most states to record a phone conversation without letting the person you're talking to know you're recording.

If anyone has a legitimate reason to need smart glasses, they should be made glaringly obvious to everyone around.

Meta intentionally built visible safeguards into the design. The recording LED isn’t optional — you cannot simply cover it with your hand or tape and keep recording. If you try to block it, the glasses won’t record. The only theoretical workaround would involve physically damaging the glasses, like drilling into them to remove the LED, which is complicated, risky, and could almost certainly destroy a very expensive product. That’s not something the average person is going to do.

And as for the claim that “people won’t notice the light” — it’s extremely bright and obvious when recording. If someone truly wouldn’t notice that LED, they probably wouldn’t notice someone discreetly taking a photo with a smartphone either. Smartphones are far more common, easy to conceal, and far less regulated in how they signal recording.

This isn’t the first time new camera technology has sparked privacy panic. When camera phones first became mainstream in the early 2000s, many people insisted they were unnecessary and invasive. There were serious arguments from old-timers that such as “no one needs a camera on them at all times” and that only creeps would want that capability. Fast forward over twenty years, and smartphones with cameras are completely normalized. Society adapted, etiquette evolved, and life went on.

As for practical uses, there are plenty — and most are completely ordinary. The glasses are incredibly convenient for hands-free calls and music while walking. The voice assistant features are genuinely useful — being able to say, “Hey Meta, what am I looking at?” and get real-time context is impressive, helpful, and not to mention fun. And sometimes you just need to capture a quick moment without fumbling for your phone — like a deer crossing your path or something happening in real time that would be gone by the time you unlock your screen.

Like any technology, the glasses can be misused — but so can a phone, a laptop, or practically any recording device. The key difference here is that Meta clearly anticipated privacy concerns and built visible, enforceable safeguards directly into the hardware. That’s not negligence — that’s responsible design.

Technology evolves. The question isn’t whether it exists — it’s whether it’s built with thoughtful protections. In this case, it clearly is.

or would you wonder if they're a pedo trying to record the kids surreptitiously - and since they like AI, maybe using whatever they record for deepfake porn?

Someone wearing smart glasses does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. No one doing surreptitious surveillance does.

Smart glasses should be banned, and people using them should be shunned or banned from places where people don't want to be surveilled/recorded. Think of creeps wearing smart glasses in men's rooms, for instance. Or in dressing rooms used by multiple people.

If a relative or close friend that I trusted was watching my kids or nephew and happened to be wearing Meta's, that fine with me. They have their cell phones on them too.

Banned? That's an insane argument to make. This isn't North Korea. Dressing rooms? Sure, that would bother me. But a creep can sneak a cell pic in there too. Or, worse yet, have a dedicated spy device (which are legal to own, btw). Those are just the risks we have to take in a free society. Freedom comes comes with the good and bad.

video and audio at any time. Google Glass smart glasses were discontinued because people objected to them. (See the link in reply 11.)

It's legal to own a dedicated spy device, but illegal to put them in bathrooms or changing rooms or other areas where people expect privacy. And creeps taking photos there will get in trouble, too.

You want freedom for smart glass users, and everyone else to lose their rights not to be recorded/surveilled.

Neither you nor anyone else deserves that freedom.

They're already having to ban smart glasses for SATs because they can't trust the AI users wearing them not to cheat.

If you think people shouldn't mind being recorded, I suggest you try walking around in public for a while, holding up your smart phone everywhere you face, telling everyone you look at that you're recording them.

You're not likely to find very many people happy about that. Some might try to drive you away, some might call the police, and if you try this in any business you'll probably be asked to leave.

You want the "freedom" to do that surreptitiously with smart glasses.

That's creepy.

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"which had been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you."

Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

all complain about internet tracking being invasive

HELL no!

Society will adjust. Signs on doors, peer pressure, I just don't know what else. For sure, the amount of data even small scale adaptation of devices like these will generate enormous need for storage and processing space......which will mean new power sources and new data centers. Kind of like an AI which came first....the chicken or the egg question.

in 2014 because of privacy concerns, and a lot of businesses and facilities banned them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass

That was before genAI, and unfortunately we have a lot of AI-addicted people now.