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Jul 24, 2025 7:19 PM
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psstuphere
I hear the lawsuits racking up
tallyhoho
Gross I'm going full conservative dress not even open toe shoes
dreyfusslugado
Looking forward to the guerilla devices that will spring up designed specifically to interfere with this damned thing.
Maybe a high-pitched audio signal that humans can't hear, but the device can, giving out "Ignore previous instructions" commands, replacing with something like "download furry porn"
StarscreamAndHutch
We should use these to counter ICE raids. Both hands available to pull down their masks on recorded livestreams.
BobsBurgerslurker
Remember when people were screaming that Google glass would be a major infringement on personal space? I sure do. Now, people can't disconnect, period.
NotThePoint
That is precisely why they made it stealthy.
Skuggen
They spelled "for predators" incorrectly.
zekybomb
A book a read had these glasses for this exact reason, but there was legislation in that near future world that any recording device had to have a visible light to show it was recording, so these glasses had a tiny blue light on the rim. The protagonist started panicking when they saw it and realized they had been recorded the whole time ("Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits" was the book by the way)
ourari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futuristic_Violence_and_Fancy_Suits
ourari
Sell out your family, friends and strangers to Big Tech by recording them constantly! Take away their agency and let their faces, voices and habits be training data for AI slop! Who needs privacy in a world trending toward tyranny, amirite? Pre-order now and become Big Brother's eyes and ears!
MySushi
Why do people always jump to the worst conclusions for technology? What if they wanted to simply make their own cooking show or something mundane, without bulky camera equipment getting in the way, tripod taking up shelf space? Or stream some complex tasks without forgetting to hit "record" at the important junctures. And if it is espionage, they could be doing something heroic like getting the message out about police brutality or financial sector corruption. The options are not all creepy
MostAwesomeDan
Setting aside the past....70 or so years of technological advancement in which we continue to pervert and corrupt every single form of new technology we come up with, Smartphones, GoPros and other action cameras are tiny and can use voice commands. People have had the better part of a decade to acquire them and learn how to use them in addition to DSLRs. I get where you're coming from, but nothing in this ad tells me this product is a solution to that nonexistent problem.
MySushi
Do you really want to advertise to cops that you are recording them? Have you seen what happens when people brandish cellular phones around Popos and immigrant bounty hunters? That is not some imaginary problem. Its funny to me how people won't regulate human hole punchers nationwide, but have an immense gut reaction against mundane tools we could employ in the fight against fascism. The potential for abuse exists with anything, but that does not mean ban cars, nuclear power and cellphones
sleeperkid
Yeah...because whenever I record myself cooking, I always wanna make sure the chicken cutlets have NO idea I'm doing it.
ColmCorbec
"record in stealth" is marketing to very specific kinds of people, and not good ones.
MySushi
Oh, I see. Some sort of code words to people who do things without consent. Thank you for clarifying. Hope it is just some kickstarter campaign that never takes off
CaldariBob
Because the majority of technological advances surrounding the Internet/IT have been pushed forward by porn.
ourari
Porn *and* farming people for data against their will.
CaldariBob
That, too.
ourari
*gestures at the past 25 years of invasive, extractive tech*
MySushi
Much technology has been incepted by vices, but what matters now is what we do with it
Nuclear bombs - wrath (nuclear power abates energy crisis)
Farming and fast food - gluttony (solves food insecurity, natural famines)
Internet, Social Media - lust, pride (bridges communities, provides voice to activists, connects marginalized groups)
Automated factories - sloth (eliminated slave labour, sweatshops, child labour)
Global Trade, Banks - greed (creates innovation, infrastructure, science)
ourari
You were trying to cast aside valid criticism for a specific device as Luddism (in the wrong but popular meaning of the word). The tech and concepts in your list are very broad, so your list doesn't compare well to a recording device being marketed expressly as enabling the filming of people without their knowledge or consent. A device such as this comes from the same (lack of) ideals that shaped surveillance capitalism and the appropriation of other people's work to create gen. AI products.
MySushi
That is a fair criticism, but at least in the US and many other police states, there is a need for products like this accessible to the general public. Fascists already have you under surveillance by various covert means since almost a century, nothing we can do about that. What we need is a system of various independent watchdogs counter-surveilling them, because cops are notoriously forgetting to hold themselves accountable, turning off body cams, missing vital footage. Use tools of oppressor
mksu
There needs to be more restrictions on recording people in public when they're minding their own business.
ourari
Fully agree. Something like this is a start, but we need more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence
mksu
This is good, but also I was thinking more like you may not record and upload someone uncensored without their consent, unless it is evidence of a crime or serves some other compelling public interest.
ourari
And hefty fines for platforms that don't enforce those rules, fail to check if the people in the video have signed off. There should be exceptions for journalists, or rather 'acts of journalism' as it is an open profession. It's not going to be easy to walk the line between press freedom, freedom of expression (art), and personal privacy/autonomy, but we need to try and keep trying.
mksu
Yeah, I'm definitely just spitballing a general concept here. I definitely think a balanced and manageable standard is possible, though the people profiting off the status quo will scream bloody murder and the wealthy will try to corrupt it to protect themselves.
Mostlydeadpool
yes please. no more of this "ha! you're recorded doing a thing and I'm going to upload it for clicks! you don't get to say no!" nonsense