Comment by LocalH
3 hours ago
I want to be able to use glasses with a camera, in situations which warrant it, to prevent people from gaslighting me or others about our conversations. Something like you see in dashcams, where it's always recording to a circular buffer of a few seconds to a minute, and then one can then enable "full" recording which dumps the buffer to storage and then starts saving everything until disabled.
I also live in a US state that only requires one-party consent to record a conversation, meaning it is fully legal in my state to record any conversation I am a participant in, regardless of the consent of the other participants.
How should this be reconciled?
Same way as the police body cameras do it: disclose what you’re doing. Which really is all OP is asking of the Ray-Ban spy cam wearers, too. A blinking red light is the conventional method.
In the police’s case, there’s rarely a choice, but at least you’re reminded you’re speaking For The Record instead of with a person. In your case, that way I know not to talk to you.
I wonder why stealth is so foundational to these devices’ success…
Other people don’t have to agree to be around you if you insist on using a camera all the time. I wouldn’t.
Sounds dystopian to me, I'd want to reconcile it by not allowing "one-party consent" for people to record me.
Not sure if the state laws you're referencing are in reality limited to phone calls, but I strongly dislike unregulated public camera use.
Your vision (no pun intended) is the story of the Black Mirror episode "The entire history of you", IMO from the show's golden age.
edit; I know that surveillance cameras pass this line already, but here they have to be announced with signs. And even when they aren't, to me state or police surveillance is different from potentially everyone stealthily recording me in private or public spaces.