Seriously, who needs to record someone without the knowledge of the person being recorded? That’s a big red flag, a perverted character, there’s no other explanation. Creepy Mark Zuckerberg allowed other creepy characters to share personal moments with him.
The surveillance society has already been normalized to a new generation of young people. This is simply the next step. The answer to “who uses Meta glasses?” is everyone, because it’s now normal to record and upload everything you do so you might as well have a camera conveniently placed in your stylish and trendy new glasses.
In the same way that it is weird or suspicious to not have a Facebook or Instagram plastered with your face, your friends faces, your cat, and enviable deeds and exploits, it will become weird to complain about being recorded by someone’s glasses - “Why, what are you hiding? What don’t you want us to see? What are you so afraid of?” The biggest sacrifice we’ve made is not the right to privacy, but to even value and understand what it is and why it is important; the very idea of privacy is eroded.
The campaign to label this phenomena a perversion has the right idea, but the wrong scope. Tech does not push these devices to enable sexual perverts, they push them to sell us the means of our own surveillance and to expand their data gathering capabilities by perverting what is viewed as normal when it comes to privacy. Being surreptitiously recorded in private spaces is just the beginning - imagine a society in which it is common and normal to have a camera in every other pair of glasses, and for it to be impossible to know when and where you may be recorded.
They did this with cell phones, now they’re doing it with glasses, TVs, cars, and anything else they can cram a camera, a microphone, a modem, and a computer in.