Reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "White Christmas".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)
Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
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Re: Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
#32I wonder if I can make a device that recognizes Meta, etc, glasses and aim and shoot laser at the camera lens (and send my users to jail after the device misses the lens and hits the glasshole's eye instead). If there are many glassholes, the laser would just shoot at them alternatingly at eg. 30 shots/seconds.. and make pew-pew noises each time.
Using something like near infrared would dazzle the sensors in these devices and is invisible and safe for human eyes.
Re: Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Privacy is the right to wear a veil if you choose. Censorship is telling everyone else they have to avert their eyes as you walk past.
In all places and situations?
Yeah, I think that basic distinction applies in some universal way.
Whether or not privacy is proper in a particular situation, or whether censorship is, that's another matter. But it's frustrating to see them confounded in this way.
Crippling the user's device (which is ultimately an affront to freedom of general purpose computing) in order to censor data which is plainly available through sensory input is not, in any sense, "privacy".
Re: Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
#34I appreciate your intent, But... This does nothing to alleviate my privacy concerns, as a bystander, about someone rudely pointing a recording camera at me. The only thing that alleviates these concerns about "smart" glasses wearers recording video, is not having "smart" glasses wearers. I.e., not having people rudely walking around with cameras strapped to their faces recording everyone and everything around them. I…
Seriously. There has been so much progress in the area of non-consensual recording and processing of data, and so little in the area of countermeasures. You can do a web search for the former and find tons of hardware and software that'll help you spy on folks. Searching for adversarial design gives scientific papers. It implies that there is little-to-no measurable demand for privacy (at least of this sort) in the marketplace.
Re: Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
#35Meta introduces these and sells a few million so far. Apple releasing theirs in 2026/2027 will increase adoption by ten fold. I thought they might add soomething like this where it blurs out those in public and or changes their face to a celebrity or no name faces.
Note i love my Meta Ray Bans yet they aren't durable and after 2 breaking after 20 months Im not sure I will buy another pair (maybe the upcoming Oakleys but still same not reliable to non-durable tech in those). But for me they are great for taking pics and videos (asking the time too when my phone isnt on me) of my life and when traveling solo using the Live AI feature to learn more about my surroundings. Like what's the history of the train tracks Im walking alongside.
Re: Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
#36I don't need something to protect the privacy of others from me, I need something to protect my privacy from others. The majority of people who use smart glasses are not going to be using this - where is the product that will protect me from them?
Masks work.