Dilara was on her lunch break in the London store where she works when a tall man walked up to her and said: “I swear red hair means you’ve just been heartbroken.”
The man continued the conversation as they both got in a lift, and he asked Dilara for her phone number.
What Dilara did not realise was that the man was secretly filming her on his smart glasses - which look like normal eyewear but have a tiny camera which can record video.
The footage was then posted to TikTok, where it received 1.3m views. “I just wanted to cry,” Dilara, 21, told the BBC.
The man who filmed her, it turned out, had posted dozens of secretly filmed videos to TikTok, giving men tips on how to approach women.
Dilara also found out that her phone number was visible in the video. She then faced a wave of messages and calls.
Until there’s a law against it, a law that requires an obvious flashing red light, this will continue to happen. I know the Meta glasses have a light that supposedly can’t be covered without covering the camera. But, that’s there only because Meta chose to put it there to head off complaints, à la Google Glass.
But, I think those lights will go away, and I believe that is what the billionaires who make the choices want to happen. Because, being in public, not knowing whether you’re being filmed is a great way to keep the masses in line. Fear and division in the populous is how those in power stay in power, when the people want them out.
I don’t have a link right offhand, but the indicator led is defeatable. There’s people on ebay offering the modded glasses for only (iirc) like $100 more than msrp.
How exactly should a law like this work? Should it be obvious to anyone being recorded in public that they are being recorded and who is doing it?
That wouldn’t be very beneficial to the surveillance state.