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Good news for those who don't want to be caught on camera "The Capture LED lets others know when you're capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered,
by 4ndrewl 3y ago
Good news for those who don't want to be caught on camera
"The Capture LED lets others know when you're capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered, you'll be notified to clear it."
So that's nice.
- luckluckgoosed 3y agoMakes me think of the power dynamic between smart glass wearers and bystanders as a social problem and not a technical one: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ar-glasses https://spectrum.ieee.org/ar-glasses
- trey-jones 3y agoThe jailbreak will be out tomorrow.
- wilsonnb3 3y agoBlack nail polish is out today
- knodi123 3y ago"If the LED is covered, you will be required to uncover it."
- ladzoppelin 3y agoCan you post where it says that, all I can find is "you will be notified"?
- wildrhythms 3y agoIt's right on the linked page, but you're right it doesn't say anything about being 'required' to uncover it. >Bystander privacy >The Capture LED lets others know when you’re capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered, you’ll be notified to clear it.
- ladzoppelin 3y agoWow, that is so dirty. They are doing the 2009 "get people to share things privately and then do a settings refactor that now makes the private things public until you reset them to private" Wow, I am sure this ends well for Rayband. :)
- knodi123 3y agoI interpreted "you’ll be notified to clear it" in the sense of "You will be notified that this is the reason the camera won't take pictures". It seems like a logical assumption - what's the point of adding tech to prevent the target-visible warning light from being obscured, if you're still allowed to take the pictures with it obscured?
- TheHappyOddish 3y agoIt's also fairly trivial to disable an LED physically.
- ParetoOptimal 3y agoOn a site called "hacker news" how is this not mentioned at the top-level to all of the "an led prevents people from silently recording you"?
- pseudalopex 3y agoThey didn't say it wouldn't record.
- gffrd 3y agoYou've read your fair share of T&C's …
- ladzoppelin 3y agoWow you are right, does anyone know if this still records with the light off or covered?
- JohnFen 3y agoIt's better than nothing, but it does put other people in the uncomfortable position of having to ask the glasses wearer to not record. And can you see the indication before you're actually on camera?
- SoftTalker 3y agoThe counter is to put on your own pair of glasses that have mirrored lenses, a laser beam scanning back and forth and a prominent shotgun microphone pointed at the other person.
- 4ndrewl 3y agoRight, but only if you know what to look for, and are actively looking.
- fillskills 3y agoPretty inconspicuous. So no, not a great feature to stream/live upload people who didnt want their privacy violated.
- yosito 3y agoI had the original version of these, which didn't know if the LED was covered, but it didn't matter because no one even noticed when the LED was on, or if they did, they didn't seem to realize that it was a camera. I tried it at a party to get some candid shots with my friends. But in the end, the quality wasn't good enough for the candid shots to actually be worth keeping.
- justinclift 3y agoBy the time you've seen that led, it likely far too late. :(