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Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’ (nypost.com)

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Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’::These stylish shades may look like a regular pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, but they're actually Meta's new Smart Glasses, complete with two tiny cameras and speakers implanted in the arms. The wearable tech was unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday at the 2023 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, sparking a frenzy online.

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[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A bar is privately-owned. How is it a public place?

[–] meco03211 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's "public". But that would be the same as filming you in your own house. If it's a friend you invited over, they could record you and it's on you to indicate your opposition and kick them out/trespass them should they refuse to comply.

Now in the private bar, the other patrons are allowed to be there and there's no law prohibiting them from recording (excepting places like a bathroom of course). If the bar tells them not to record, they can comply or be asked to leave. If the bar doesn't tell them to leave, it's on you to leave. Consider if a nazi walked into the bar. They have the right to be a nazi and go to bars. Bars have the right to refuse or provide service to whomever (so long as it doesn't target a protected class). You have no more right to be at the bar than the nazi or person filming (absent some other condition like the bar telling them to leave).

Tl:Dr - it's not public in the legal sense. However civil law takes over.

[–] ilmagico 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I guess you're speaking for the USA, or whatever country you live in, but @[email protected] seemed to speak about a different (unspecified) country. We're left to guess which country...

(also, Godwin's law still applies lol)

[–] meco03211 1 points 1 year ago

US. Yes. I can't speak for other countries.