Calls in the UK to ban sex offenders from buying smart glasses

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/51620160

I love how they put a pic of “Epstein File Mark” in the article ;)

cybernews.com/tech/offenders-smart-glasses/

Just ban them for everyone. Pervert glasses have no legitimate use.

Everything they can do, a go-pro or adjacent camera would work without issue and with less ambiguity.

The only reason you could possibly have for using them is to film people in secret. Like a pervert.

Lack of imagination. One can easily imagine scenarios where glases can be useful outside filming other people. Simple tasks like getting a receipt and scanning it before throwing away, or getting dietary feedback on a menu items would be quite more easily achieved with smartglasses than otherwise. AR-assisted navigation in cities with to image data could be quite useful as well.

Not to mention if one has sight issues; I can imagine describing environments or reading texts being wildly useful for some.

Perhaps consider first banning devices that are designed for secret filming, e.g. “car key” cameras, watch cameras, pen cameras, powerback cameras, and yes, glass cameras… You can find them from Amazon for <100€, which is much more affordable option in the first place.

Those would be all very valid uses but the problem is is that they’re not smart glasses. They are just normal glasses (well non prescription fake plastic glasses) with a camera in them. If they could give you directions or something on a sort of holographic heads up display they might have some use.