Smart glasses with cameras and microphones built-in and facial recognition to come are the latest fad in surveillance tech.

[imaguid@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker "jeepers creepers, where'd you get those peepers" has such a different meaning now

[kevinashworth@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker
Yes. A good label to shame them, but as you write this isn’t just about perversion: lewd images are readily available online. Doing it in person without consent is about exercising control. It’s a gateway drug to ultimate control, i.e., r*pe. For me, ‘pervert’ doesn’t quite capture the need to take, to control, to disregard another’s humanity. Oh look, I just listed 3 defining traits of Big Tech execs, the lewd ones and non-lewd alike.

[401matthall@mastodon.xyz]

@zackwhittaker

Wearing these things seems like a great way to get a laser shined in your eyes. Hope the lenses are filtered.

[sea1am@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker

The country that elected DJT will surely be lining up for a hot, fresh pair of Pedo Peepers. I expect them to be a smashing success in the USA.

[lordofquails@ioc.exchange]

@zackwhittaker

For these I suggest a "firewall".

Well, a mini one. Just being built...

Ok, a brick.

(add some gas and a lighter once the wall has done it's deed, to make the name fit)

[karamazov1879@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker Could also be called BC or birth control glasses as an INS agent embassy Moscow called his butt ugly glasses. When he bought them he said he wanted the ugliest glasses they had. They were pretty awful.

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker

My wife is blind. She uses smart glasses as assistive technology for her disability.

While I agree there is a pervert problem, hers is a legitimate use case for them.

[joblakely@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker smut glasses

[nedhamson1@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker two questions… have people already begun developing portable ‘jamming’ devices and software? How long before it becomes readily available and affordable? And third, will it work in mobile smart phones?

[zackwhittaker@mastodon.social]

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[yaelwrites@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker one day my cyberdog will be included

[zackwhittaker@mastodon.social]

@yaelwrites send in a snap, I would love to include! (I have long dropped my cybercat-only policy )

[yaelwrites@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker I think I sent one a while ago! but I can look

[leftsidestory@mstdn.social]

@zackwhittaker @taylorlorenz I wonder if people know: As soon as anyone lands in Japan, their smartphone will not be able to take a photo without the shutter sound. It is built in for all smartphones in accordance with Japanese laws against perverts spying on women with their phones with the invention of cameras on phones.
I wonder if similar things can be done to require these kind of glasses to emit a loud shutter sound or something to alert people.

[peterbrown@mastodon.scot]

@zackwhittaker so they are way beyond dashcams in cars and GoPro on bicycle helmets?

[vundb@mastodon.social]

@zackwhittaker For me, it’s not the fact that these glasses exist that’s questionable, that’s just a normal technological development, but rather the question of why people are buying them, causing them to become mainstream and find their way into our everyday lives. What problem do they solve that would make me willing to give up my privacy and desperately hand over my hard-earned money to the big tech companies?