Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

49 pointsposted an hour ago
by Philadelphia

13 Comments

dankwizard

a minute ago

It's why I use the classic camera-in-the-pen-in-the-shirt-pocket.

qha34h

14 minutes ago

I don't see how these glasses are legal at all. While filming in public places is allowed in the US, commercial use of that material is not. For example, you cannot just use public material with recognizable people in advertisements without their consent.

Meta is likely to use material from these spy devices to build real world networks and use it commercially.

These "glasses" should be outlawed. The only useful purpose is to immediately identify the wearer as an asshole.

bryan0

17 minutes ago

Serious question: what will happen when people start getting implants? They’ll probably require some sort of off mode, but not sure how that would be enforced.

kelseyfrog

11 minutes ago

I hope there's a way we can identify them so that we can boycott interacting with them. It's the same reason why the cybertuck was so awesome - made avoiding chuds so much easier.

steanne

4 minutes ago

sounds like an expensive way to get disqualified from jury duty.

SilverElfin

26 minutes ago

All public transit and workplaces next.

Octoth0rpe

27 minutes ago

Cool. Now do all government offices / properties of any kind please (and also go national with the policy).

Absolutely fuck these things and anyone who advocates for them. No exceptions.

> reasonably affordable and available smart glasses have finally begun catching on within the last year.

Also, no they haven't.

martythemaniak

21 minutes ago

There's hardly a worse advertisement for those than Zuckerberg wearing them. The idea was always that Google glass failed because it made you look like a dork because the glasses looked weird, so if the glasses looked normal they'd sell. But now you have a creep with a camera always pointed at you, so it'll go the same way.

lokinork

16 minutes ago

What’s to hide?

rorylawless

11 minutes ago

Quote from the article subheading:

"The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation."

It seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation to ban any device from courts.

paulv

8 minutes ago

Jurors?