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  1. An emerging trend: restaurants, pubs, cultural venues and others banning #PervGlasses, to protect the #privacy of their guests:

    theguardian.com/technology/202

    And no: it's not privacy "fears". It's about respect – those owners know what they owe to their guests.

    #surveilance #Meta #RayBan #SpyGlasses

  2. Heute Morgen beim #mdRzA:
    Ich komme an der hiesigen Becker&Flöge-Filiale vorbei. An deren Schaufenster: Hier #RayBanMeta“.
    Ich habe meine Position zu diesen #Spyglasses hier bereits mehr als deutlich gemacht.
    Aus meiner Sicht hat sich Becker&Flöge damit aus der Gruppe ehrbarer und fairer #Augenoptiker*Innen endgültig verabschiedet.
    Ich denke, Ihr wisst, was zu tun ist.
    #Hannover #Niedersachsen

  3. Seeing much more use of #spyGlasses by middle aged YouTuber men "auditing" #petrol stations in the #UK (either to check fuel quality or whether the pumps are accurate), some are now starting to covertly film staff as well (who are often brown people) which they weren't doing as much before..

    We all know #fuel is bloody expensive and tax high - but #TradingStandards do a good job of checking up on #forecourts and have proper calibrated kit for this purpose.

    British motorists have always moaned about price of petrol before I was born (let alone started driving), but it seems to have got worse in recent years (even before Trump's escalations) and seems to coincides with more #BritishAsian folk working in this industry (including becoming CEOs of fuel station chains)

  4. There are no "smart glasses".

    Meta/Facebook and Ray-Ban would like you to call them that, but you shouldn't. You should call them by their proper, accurate name.

    That is "creep glasses". People who wear them are "glassholes".

    If you see anyone wearing them in public, you should stop what you're doing, point dramatically at them, and loudly say "Hey, this creep is recording you without your permission! He's a glasshole!" [1]. Ignore any protests of "I'm not recording!", because the tell-tale indicator is trivially bypassed, so you *have* to assume every user is recording, all the time.

    Mock them. Insult them. Shun them. Make sure everyone knows they're a creep. If you know someone who has creep glasses, make sure they never, ever wear them in your presence. Warn everyone you know about them.

    What killed creep glasses the last time around - remember Google Glass? - was social opprobrium. Do it again. Make it *extremely* uncomfortable to be caught wearing them in public, so they *stop* fucking wearing them in public. You want them gathering dust, in shame, in the back of a drawer somewhere. You want the creep owner to feel a deep pang of regret every time they think about them.

    [1] It will be a "he". I guarantee it.

    #creep #CreepGlasses #SmartGlasses #GoogleGlass #Facebook #Meta #Google #SpyGlasses #record #video #opprobrium #creepy