Is there anything whatsoever a privacy-minded person can do about something like this, in terms of personal protection?

Depends on whether you live in the US or EU I guess.

I remember when Google glass came out. I was living in New York, and almost every single establishment banned them nearly immediately. You wouldn’t be allowed in if you were wearing them, and if anyone saw you put them on, you get kicked out. No questions.

This happened in a lot of places, as I recall.

I remember when Google glass came out. I was living in New York, and almost every single establishment banned them nearly immediately. You wouldn’t be allowed in if you were wearing them, and if anyone saw you put them on, you get kicked out. No questions.

This happened in a lot of places, as I recall.

That would be nice, but outside of major cities, I can't see that happening.

I may just have to start wearing a hoodie and mask everywhere. I really, really don't like the idea of these glasses.

Well, you are far from alone. I imagine that a majority of people will feel this way, especially when they are more privacy invasive than Google glass ever was.

Also, people are much more privacy focused than they were 15 years ago. I can imagine there will be significant pushback to wearing these glasses anywhere but in open, public spaces. Private establishments will likely ban them.

There's a big social stigma against this. Every other version of this that has come out has failed due to the combination of expense and stigma. I suspect this is nothing to worry about.

Very few people are going to pay hundreds of dollars to be socially isolated. Kill the market, kill the device.

Maybe those hoodies that fuck with camera sensors so they can't take photos of your face?

Remember how cell phones spread, and even people in poor countries with limited infrastructure?

This will be the same or worse. No, you won't be able to avoid being recorded by other people. This will change in the future, if it ever does, only when a large majority understand how the devices are being abused by power to control us and keep us enslaved. But, even upon that realization, if people find enough value in using the tech, they'll put up with being enslaved if they're still comfortable enough. It's a balance, and power knows it. They're working out the details as they go.

This is what's coming. My suggestion is don't have kids.

Tl;dr two over privileged teenage psychopaths stole a stupid idea from Meta/google that was hated by many and are going to make it worse by going all-in on the reasons people hate them.

Let's get these guys some money!!!

Fuck these talentless twerps.

What is the value of recording everything?

Look into microphone jammers

To feed the data centers with yummy personal data. No dataset is to big, no picture of the side of someone's arm is too pointless. We must consume all data

Tremendous value in concentration of money and power in the hands of the superior few. Know your place, peasant.

Google Glass purposefully made it obvious what they were. The newer glasses without cameras from Meta et al basically look like regular glasses if you can't see the waveguide in the lenses.

I mean they are a bunch of things but I wouldn’t call them talentless.

FOMO. Every experience is recorded just in case you (or really the government) might ever realize it was missed. Just in case it ever becomes interesting.

I would. They're making an entirely unoriginal product with an entirely unoriginal sales pitch and, presumably, an unoriginal surveillance-based business model.