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 ;)

I know it’s a hot-take… But how about we (Earth) ban smart glasses.

This isn’t wise for the sole reason that they really are a great benefit to the visually impaired.

Right now the tech is super useful, being able to read small text out loud and differentiate similar objects that certain conditions make difficult. However, the tech has the potential to do so much more.

Banning it now would be like slapping a whole lot of disabled people in the face.

Well in that case they should be regulated with a licence or even a prescription, right? To add to this, disabled people in the example you’re putting forward don’t need internet connectivity or filming capabilities. I see your concern but when the price is the privacy of the entire planet, I can’t accept your argument.

You think people should need a license to use technology like glasses and cameras. Listen to yourself!

I don’t know what kind of “anti” hole you fell into but you need to crawl back out.

Technology that trains AI for fascistic multi-billion dollar companies? Films, tracks, listens to private and potentially sensitive conversations? Yeah, probably.

I’m comfortable in my hole. Maybe you should take the advice of a stranger on the internet instead and grow the fuck up.

You’re confused: You assume that all cameras on glasses will always be controlled by fascists.

Did it ever occur to you that someone might make their own glasses? Or that a company could make a set that works offline?

If you ran things, such technology would never happen because it would be banned before it got out the door.

But you’d be ok with that because you live in a hole, with perfect eyesight and zero foresight.