Read the disturbing features: Amazon.com
Excerpts from customer reviews:
“These are very cool and handy. It’s like some spy gear. lol”
“Literally feel like a cool spy with these on. Love it so much.”
“…there is a very obtrusive white LED light on the temple, next to one of the camera lenses, that comes on whenever they are recording. I guess this is in the name of “privacy” so others know they are being recorded, but I think it’s silly and just draws attention to the wearer.”
… by the masses, but how long before it is co-opted by Big Tech and by government?
For example, I imagine that this is all blackbox hardware and software, so it may already be sending everything “somewhere”. It specifically notes that you must run the app (which I assume uses Bluetooth to communicate with the glasses). What does the app do? Anyone’s guess.
And is there a backdoor for disabling the recording LED? (That could be used malevolently by the wearer or by a third party.)
As I read critics - it doesn’t send data anywhere … at least after using it for few weeks lot of devices seem to break. 
Looks like a piece of garbage which you can get for 20$ from Chinese.
But I hate the direction things are going. On street I cannot block scripts, so that cameras cannot put my data into wrong hands. The internet breaks out of my home where it is under control and spread around the public. And it’s hard to recognize them.
Well, if not, then there’s certainly a “front” door: black tape.
That’s not actually a problem in itself. As long as people are moral, this doesn’t become a problem.
But, the problem is people are immoral. Media outlets program people to sell out each other to government. People in north korea and china sell each other to government all the time.
If people are moral, then they will use this against government instead of using this to sell each other out to government.
As long as media outlets program people to be moral, it will not backfire. So, you should donate to media outlets that promote morality and freedom instead of centralized control.
Media outlets program people. People run on media programs. Humans are not exactly computers, but they are like computers. Humans are like programmable computers. Human consciousness is programmable.
One huge problem with (chinese) media outlets is they program people to give up their own rights for money and even sell other people’s rights for money. Giving up rights for money is a sin because when you give up your own rights for money, you harm other people’s rights. One person gives up rights for money, and it becomes easier for government to take away rights of others.
This is a horrible invention. Terribly frightening. Want to know what one can do with this kind of accessory and some software:
The only surprise is that they had to even modify a Meta product to automatically dox everyone.
It’s even a problem if people do not act immoral. Alone the presence of such devices can lead other people to react in another way as they usually would do.
True. Maybe they didn’t think about this use. Maybe they did, but they are cautious and didn’t want to cause a big outcry. I wouldn’t say ethical reasons could have held them - ethics is a notion they don’t know.
But I’m sure that pretty soon this will be the new reality we will live in - the accepted societal norm.
This is called inevitabilism - a neologism coined by Shoshana Zuboff in her famous essay “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”. To quote her:
‘Technological inevitability is the mantra on which we are trained, but it is an existential narcotic prescribe to induce resignation: a snuff dream of the spirit.’
The ideology of inevitabilism: the belief that technological progress, even if it is catastrophic for the planet, inimical to effective human life, or disastrous for society at large, cannot be allayed, prevented or reversed.
In public places, people act differently anyway. In private domains, it is an issue.
I am describing a situation where people act differently to both of your described situations.
Acting differently is tangential to morality.
There are ways to use facial recognition morally. There are ways to use it immorally.
Privacy violation is a form of trespass which is immoral. Facial recognition can be used in ways that don’t violate privacy.
Technologies don’t determine collective freedom. Collective morality determines collective freedom.
A knife can be used to cook food or murder people. Any technology can be used morally or immorally.
As long as at least 51% of people understand correct moral boundaries, technologies will largely be used morally. The problem is that most people don’t understand morality.
A likely scenario is that media outlets brainwash people into thinking they should give up right to have privacy for safety or security.
Giving up rights for safety and security won’t make people secure or safe. The problem isn’t technologies. The problem is media outlets brainwashing people into giving up rights for safety and teaching fake morality to people. School and media don’t teach real morality.
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