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9. Because most people don't want to have to wonder if anyone wearing glasses is taking photos and/or

Tue Feb 17, 2026, 08:57 PM

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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.

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Apple is reportedly planning to launch AI-powered glasses, a pendant, and AirPods [View all] highplainsdem Tuesday OP

What could go wrong? FalloutShelter Tuesday #1

I hope all these products FAIL!!!! Multichromatic Tuesday #2

I have Ray-Ban Meta's that have been out for a couple of years now Polybius Tuesday #6

Because most people don't want to have to wonder if anyone wearing glasses is taking photos and/or highplainsdem Tuesday #9

Ray-Ban Meta's are a lot different than small companies who put out similar glasses Polybius Tuesday #10

Meta is planning to add facial recognition to its smart glasses. I guess you missed the news. highplainsdem Tuesday #12

No, we were talking about currently, not speculation on the future Polybius Tuesday #13

I don't believe there aren't ways to disable that light, or that it can't simply stop working. And highplainsdem Tuesday #14

There are ways, but it's quite complicated Polybius Tuesday #16

Btw, would you trust anyone wearing smart glasses and watching children to be watching innocently, highplainsdem Tuesday #15

I would thoroughly vet anyone around my kids Polybius Tuesday #17

No, we don't have to tolerate people wearing glasses that could be recording and storing photos, highplainsdem Tuesday #18

Google Glass was discontinued because it was expensive and the technology wasn't there yet in 2013 Polybius Wednesday #20

The reasons Google Glass was discontinued usually have privacy concerns at or near the top. Tech highplainsdem Wednesday #21

Smart glasses don't create new surveillance, they operate within the same legal framework Polybius Wednesday #28

You're much too trusting of AI companies and how desperate they always are for more training data. highplainsdem Wednesday #29

You're right about one thing: distrust of large tech companies is understandable Polybius Thursday #33

The formatting of your reply is very reminiscent of outputs from genAI. You're defending/promoting highplainsdem Thursday #35

I'll clear this up directly: it's me writing the replies Polybius Thursday #41

Thanks for explaining. And I'll accept your explanation because I would like to believe that people on highplainsdem Friday #42

Thank you for accepting my explanation, you are a great person Polybius Friday #43

Liberals are supposed to be good people, concerned about others and wanting fairness. That's all I'm highplainsdem Yesterday #44

I wasn't being sarcastic at all when I said you're a good person Polybius Yesterday #45

You keep trying to make a fundamentally unethical defense of an industry built on theft that highplainsdem Yesterday #47

I'm not rooting for AI companies to "win a battle against artists" Polybius 17 hrs ago #50

Sigh. Frame it however you want. I realize AI users can get hooked easily and do not want highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #51

Some Reddit threads on what people think of people wearing smart glasses: highplainsdem Wednesday #30

I honestly don't care what a handful of Reddit threads say Polybius Thursday #34

Thanks! architect359 Yesterday #48

This. And people are defending it. travelingthrulife Wednesday #22

To all those consuming morons willing to buy this junk, I would like to quote Jim Morrison by saying.... Crowman2009 Tuesday #3

"They were a double pair of Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses" muriel_volestrangler Tuesday #4

LOL... Thank you for my laugh of the day FemDemERA Tuesday #5

I have zero doubt that the people who buy these products Skittles Tuesday #7

Just........ Red Mountain Tuesday #8

Google's brand of smart glasses, Google Glass, were discontinued soon after they were introduced highplainsdem Tuesday #11

Reminds me of this parody. Crowman2009 Tuesday #19

Just no! SheltieLover Wednesday #23

They are trying to normalize surveillance! SheltieLover Wednesday #24

Yes! And it surprises and disappoints me that any Democrats, any liberals, would be okay with this, highplainsdem Wednesday #25

Absolutely in agreement with all you've stated! SheltieLover Wednesday #27

I wouldn't want an apple product unless it was made of gold and given to me by cook yaesu Wednesday #26

I'm still waiting for my Honewell kitchen computer... hunter Wednesday #31

That ad is so hilarious - and sexist. highplainsdem Thursday #36

It keeps them out of trouble. hunter Thursday #38

I plan to sell my house so I can buy all those goodies! chouchou Thursday #32

The prices are coming down, unfortunately. Which means that more and more teachers will have to highplainsdem Thursday #37

Your words are true. Personally, I've never liked the idea that some students can easily... chouchou Thursday #39

Oh great, now jealous husbands can spy on their wives FakeNoose Thursday #40

Apple's products have gone from amazing to shit Prairie Gates Yesterday #46

Besides the whole being an insane mass murderer thing, the Unabomber may have had a point or two about technology. LudwigPastorius Yesterday #49

God. Who the hell wants to wear glasses just so they can record everything? Kablooie 2 hrs ago #52