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The person you're responding was clearly just saying that it's funny how uncomfortable people were about being recorded by Google Glass, while covert methods of
by ignostic 12y ago
The person you're responding was clearly just saying that it's funny how uncomfortable people were about being recorded by Google Glass, while covert methods of recording are not difficult but rarely worried about.
Take it easy - we know what was meant. No need to get pedantic about the definition of "irony."
- 0xDOOD 12y ago>while covert methods of recording are not difficult but rarely worried about. Unless you're a woman who's ever worn a skirt in public, gone to a gym, or used the changing room in a store.
- avar 12y ago...or a guy who's used the changing room in as store. What's so different about being a woman in that context?
- hackmiester 12y agoNothing, in theory. In reality, women are the ones who have to worry about change room cameras. There is definitely a disconnect there.
- jnbiche 12y ago>while covert methods of recording are not difficult but rarely worried about. Well, yes. Because they're...covert. People rarely worry about things they don't know exist.
- njharman 12y agohence the irony. Let's hate this thing we know about and can avoid, while ignoring the real threats to privacy.
- forgottenpass 12y agoBut it's not the "thing we know about and can avoid" it's the thing we know about, and wish to push back on so that social norms don't change to find innocuous.