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Thanks for summarizing my point ; It was a bigger issue in the media sphere ie; those whom read tech news, because the pushed narrative was that people will fil

Thanks for summarizing my point ; It was a bigger issue in the media sphere ie; those whom read tech news, because the pushed narrative was that people will film your butt in public, and then look at it later, and so will nefarious Google engineers. But to your example, doesn't the coffee shop have a totally legal camera up providing CCTV recording/surveillance that is literally hidden away on purpose? and same with dash cams outside parked in parking spots, red light cameras, DOT cameras etc.... All of these we have come to understand serve a legitimate purpose, and you'll basically never find anyone who questions them. The populace (me included) who absorb media at any rate had this idea in their head that people with cameras on their faces are potentially weirdos, because "FANG bad". But those same people (again, me included) will go to disneyworld and register their face/thumbprint :D

Ancapistani 1y ago
> But to your example, doesn't the coffee shop have a totally legal camera up providing CCTV [...] Of course, but that wasn't what I was pointing out. I was trying to say that the attitude for wearable recording devices has changed a great deal. Google Glass was extremely obvious; RayBan Metas usually go completely unnoticed. I doubt anyone had ever brought Google Glass into that coffee shop - and as you pointed out, recording was already taking place anyhow. My point is that society has gone from a place where a bulky, obvious camera on a pair of glasses caused a small-scale societal panic to a place where people walk around with cameras and microphones intended to record the public and no one seems to care enough to even bring it up. That's a huge shift in only a decade. > The populace (me included) who absorb media at any rate had this idea in their head that people with cameras on their faces are potentially weirdos, because "FANG bad". I thought so, too - but it turns out the populace only cares about virtue signaling about it. If the device isn't obvious, there's no pushback even when the people know without a doubt that it's present.

Ancapistani 1y ago

> But to your example, doesn't the coffee shop have a totally legal camera up providing CCTV [...] Of course, but that wasn't what I was pointing out. I was trying to say that the attitude for wearable recording devices has changed a great deal. Google Glass was extremely obvious; RayBan Metas usually go completely unnoticed. I doubt anyone had ever brought Google Glass into that coffee shop - and as you pointed out, recording was already taking place anyhow. My point is that society has gone from a place where a bulky, obvious camera on a pair of glasses caused a small-scale societal panic to a place where people walk around with cameras and microphones intended to record the public and no one seems to care enough to even bring it up. That's a huge shift in only a decade. > The populace (me included) who absorb media at any rate had this idea in their head that people with cameras on their faces are potentially weirdos, because "FANG bad". I thought so, too - but it turns out the populace only cares about virtue signaling about it. If the device isn't obvious, there's no pushback even when the people know without a doubt that it's present.