“Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.”

“A small LED light is designed to indicate when recording is taking place, but RTBF’s investigators found that tutorials explaining how to conceal the indicator are abundant and easily accessible online.”

Sometimes I have a hard time deciding who I despise more, parasite Mark Zuckerberg or its witless hosts who keep using its products—yes, Zuck’s pronoun is it. Ban Ray-Ban, for frick’s sake.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    21 hours ago

    Snapping a photo or video of your family or a landmark for your personal memories that happens to have some other people in the background is a hell of a lot different than sending a constant stream of everyone you’re looking at along with location data to Facebook, Google, the government, and whoever the fuck else. I shouldn’t have to explain this to you. And yes if you’re going to be uploading someones image online I do think you should have their permission.

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      4 hours ago

      That’s not what is being discussed though (streaming video to fb/google/government/etc).

      That’s where it would start crossing the line into surveillance, which has strict laws around it.