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A small LED light is designed to indicate when recording is taking place, but RTBF's investigators found that tutorials explaining how to conceal the indicator are abundant and easily accessible online.
You need a tutorial to use a piece of electrical tape?
The users are peak idiots…
Supposedly there is a sensor that detects if the recording light is covered and disables the camera, so it's about bypassing that.
“Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.”
Isn't this all public cameras?
Yes, in a way.
Privacy laws are a little complicated but not that bad.
In this case Europe sees filming in public, while concealing the fact, not legal.
Conversely, if you are filming and it is very clear that you are(ie a camera, film crew etc) and you are not singling out anyone who doesnt want to be recorded then it is perfectly legal to film in public.
Do you see how it works now and how these Ray-Ban glasses go against this?
Its legal to record in public as long as you respect the privacy of others. Of course they can always be a background figure if they are not focused on but making them the star of your production without consent makes it very illegal and immoral in my opinion.
Have a great day!
I work in the field, in Europe, and can confirm this is about right. There are also situations where you start needing permits to film, either because it's private property or even public property if you start having to put down a lot of equipment and crew.
Except that these cameras easily go anywhere, they aren't just outside on the street.
Spas? Pools? Gyms Locker rooms? Find a nice spot sitting on a bench near a women's dressing room at the mall that peeks in a bit? Set your glasses at your side and record while you look ahead at your phone, not freaking anyone out. They're pervert enablers just as much as Grok is a CSAM machine if you pay for it.
Recording camera in public sources are subject to the EU law. You can't install then without authorization and their use is reglemented.
I don't know if it's there case in all the EU but for example in France people need to be informed by a sign of a camera is recording the area, they can't record the entrance of private houses ...
I think the difference that most people overlook, is that she doesn't know. It's a "hidden" camera. If they were holding up a phone or dslr, people would know to get out of the shot if they didn't want to be filmed. Plus, it's Europe, they're probably better about privacy.
And private smart phones.
I honestly don't understand why these glasses have become so mainstream
Have they? I’ve never seen anyone wearing them.
You haven't seen them, but they've seen you.
Part of me wants to go "well you're on a public venue, what the hell did you expect?"
But anyone wearing Zuck Glasses should be shot at from the orbit from the EU Anti-Douchebaggotry Satellite, or something. That's a special exception to public photography laws that I approve of!
as intended.
Who could have seen this coming? Who?
The worst thing about vulture capital targeting young manipulable tech bros for their get rich schemes is that has created a self perpetuating mono culture of spoiled rich grifters with stunted emotional maturity that never progressed beyond teenage boy. The have been allowed to dominate everything and are shaping the rage baited, meme ridden, dumbarse, ignorant dystopia. Lets just pull the plug on them and stop giving them money. Then they will all fuck off back to their mum's basement to play video games and jerk off to their ai.
If only they had a "legitimate public-interest justification", then they could feed it straight into Brussels' Regional Informatics Center (BRIC), together with the thousands of public cameras from: police stations, the subway system, the port of Brussels, the fire and emergency medical assistance department, and the public service department responsible for traffic management, signals and tunnels; to be analyzed by video analytics tools (alerting operators upon "illegal parking or a large group of people, for example", bookmarking video clips with movement, and where the "next step will be to integrate facial and number plate recognition"), as reported in their Genetec customer story...
Sie haben mich ins Gesicht gefilmt!
... and water is wet?
It'll only be a matter of time before some gross troglodyte makes an app for the glasses that will use AI to simulate what everyone would look like naked.
You know that will happen.
Who could have predicted this?
