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Amazing news! Something like this should implemented in all areas. What if my family and I are on the flight and I don't want them filmed?

I have heard the middle east has some very strict public filming laws, especially for women and children. Would be very popular globally!

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What was preventing this in the era of "everyone has a smartphone"?

It's much more obvious that someone is holding up their phone to record than someone wearing glasses containing an inconspicuous camera and recording LED that may have been tampered with.

Tampering is much harder than using an ordinary phone in a way that looks inconspicuous.

Sometimes it is. I regularly see people scrolling TikTok and Instagram in public, they might as well be shooting ultrawide 4k footage and I'd have no idea.

... and streaming it live to Instagram or YouTube

Shirt pocket

It takes deliberate effort to hide that you're filming with a smartphone. It doesn't require extra effort to disguise the act of filming with Meta glasses as simply looking at someone.

False. The Meta glasses have a blinking white LED while filming. The camera gets disabled if you try to cover it. Filming someone with a phone is much easier to disguise.

It seems that some people are able to disable the indicator light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gghlzrmfWH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awCU4RtorMY

Though I see that Meta are trying to make disabling difficult:

https://shattered.io/meta-ai-glasses-led-camera-disable-2026...

Why do they need to hide it?

His family doesn't want recorded whether it's hidden or not.

But it's public, so...

> Why do they need to hide it?

Because if they don't, they'll be shamed or ordered to stop? Like, why does anyone ever hide anything frowned upon?

What prevents murder in areas where everyone has a gun?

Consequences.

The consequences of these glasses should be that in any private space, the offender either remove them, or remove themselves. Just like there are consequences to trying to hold up your phone in a way that looks like you are recording staff or other patrons in many private spaces.

Social mores. The desire of individuals to farm social capital and the desire of corporations to monetize this drive completely displaced "is it okay if I film this?" for a decade or two, but it seems to be coming back somewhat. I'm not holding my breath, though.

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