After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.
Not necessarily. Maybe because I’m old, I don’t think being out in public and having that delivered to an audience way bigger and further outside that area without consent is right. If I’m walking by in a shot or something, I don’t mind at all. But if it’s someone sitting nearby when I’m at a restaurant or bar or something, that starts to get weird for me. I did also have a stalker once which definitely did shape my view on this more.
Isn’t your reaction pretty much because you know they’re going to enshittify and abuse your data?
Not necessarily. Maybe because I’m old, I don’t think being out in public and having that delivered to an audience way bigger and further outside that area without consent is right. If I’m walking by in a shot or something, I don’t mind at all. But if it’s someone sitting nearby when I’m at a restaurant or bar or something, that starts to get weird for me. I did also have a stalker once which definitely did shape my view on this more.