@elettrona@poliversity.it @smallcircles@social.coop @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange @index@this.weekinsecurity.com @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social @StopdeGluurbril@mastodon.nl actually, what you're describing is precisely why this particular thing is not complex. Precisely because these kinds of technologies will get abused and used to abuse is why we must ensure wearing these kinds of devices is not ever socially normalized.
What you're describing is horrendous, and one of the many reasons I'm repulsed by myself for looking like those people, for having the same gender as those people, oftentimes the same skin color as those people.
But normalizing these kinds of technologies will do nothing but perpetuate and worsen the problem we've had as long as humans have been around; those same people will have more powerful toys to abuse more, more efficiently, and at even larger scales.
In a morally just world we could all trust one another, use these technologies no matter what company makes them, and in the appropriate situations know that the other party will take off their smart glasses.
In the real world, this technology will give more people the sickening power to look at you in the way you described, and without you even knowing it share that view with everyone else.
In the country where I live, phone makers are legally required to forcibly enable phone photo sound effects, because they know plenty of perverts have been making upskirt photos, toilet photos, whatever kind of photos of people in private moments or angles without consent.
Just like there are real situations where it might be necessary (or just useful) to be able to make a photo without producing a loud sound whilst doing so, precisely because we can't trust people to do the right thing, we can't have that.
It comes at a cost to more morally just people, but it's the price we must pay for living alongside the morally less just.
(Admittedly it's a small cost in this particular example, but I hope the example helps bring my thoughts across nonetheless.)
What you're describing is horrendous, and one of the many reasons I'm repulsed by myself for looking like those people, for having the same gender as those people, oftentimes the same skin color as those people.
But normalizing these kinds of technologies will do nothing but perpetuate and worsen the problem we've had as long as humans have been around; those same people will have more powerful toys to abuse more, more efficiently, and at even larger scales.
In a morally just world we could all trust one another, use these technologies no matter what company makes them, and in the appropriate situations know that the other party will take off their smart glasses.
In the real world, this technology will give more people the sickening power to look at you in the way you described, and without you even knowing it share that view with everyone else.
In the country where I live, phone makers are legally required to forcibly enable phone photo sound effects, because they know plenty of perverts have been making upskirt photos, toilet photos, whatever kind of photos of people in private moments or angles without consent.
Just like there are real situations where it might be necessary (or just useful) to be able to make a photo without producing a loud sound whilst doing so, precisely because we can't trust people to do the right thing, we can't have that.
It comes at a cost to more morally just people, but it's the price we must pay for living alongside the morally less just.
(Admittedly it's a small cost in this particular example, but I hope the example helps bring my thoughts across nonetheless.)
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