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[The post’s author is] basically saying [they] want to be able to say and do stupid things without getting embarrassed by them later.. well regardless of recording technology, good luck with that.

You accept cameras installed in your environment but not those held by people. On the one hand I could say you’re being paranoid about people-mounted cameras and on the other that you’re not paranoid enough about building-mounted cameras. Your perception of current surveillance is that it’s justified to protect our safety but multiple studies have found that not to be true (look up “aclu surveillance crime rates” in google).

I think the issue a few people have with cameras in glasses is almost entirely psychological: if they’re attached to people you simply notice them more and realize that a real person is actually watching you. Unmanned cameras are easily ignored or dismissed with thoughts like, ‘Oh, no one actually watches those tapes unless they have a warrant.’ so they SEEM innocuous in comparison.

To put it in the form of an analogy: Would you be uncomfortable waiting 5 minutes, 5 feet away from a mattress advertisement poster? I’d bet you wouldn’t and might not even notice it. How about waiting the same time and distance from a man waving the same ad board at you and all passers by? I think you’d definitely notice the mattress ad and probably start feeling uncomfortable. You’d probably eventually try to address your discomfort by maybe trying to talk to the guy or get further away.

You might even write a blog post about it later, saying how something must be done about these awful walking advertisements.