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Does adding a light to Glass really solve the problem of covert recording? Does getting rid of Glass even do that? Cameras are tiny. Privacy is dying.

• icebraining 11y ago
  The difference is what's called "normalization". Sure, everyone can get a covert camera. But few people are going to buy and use one, because they'd feel like a creep and/or they can't use it as a fashion statement and/or it's not as useful by itself. So unless you're being specifically targeted, the chances of being filmed are small. But if using a device with a camera always pointed at others (unlike cellphones, which usually remain in pockets and bags) and which uploads everything to "the cloud" becomes normal, it becomes almost impossible to avoid the pervasive monitorization. As the US Privacy Study Commission wrote in 1977, "the real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable."