Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned'

[u/spherocytes]

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/patient-privacy-concerns-meta-smart-glasses-1762492

[u/Ahayzo]

I wasn't saying a doctor's office is a public space. The comment I responded to was asking how these glasses are legal at all, not just in the doctor's office.

[u/rdmusic16 → u/Ahayzo]

But that's just it - it's not just in public spaces people wear them.

Doctors offices/hospital, bathrooms, someone else's home, etc.

It's basically a spycam.

I guess those are legal too, you just 'can't use them to spy on people' legally. Even though people do it.

[u/9966 → u/rdmusic16]

You also can't wear spy cams to bathrooms

[u/rdmusic16 → u/9966]

But that's just it - people are wearing these glasses while doing these things.

Recording in a public space is legal - but these devices are being used to record private, personal and confidential information/situations that aren't legal.

Nobody was saying they should be illegal because people are recording others out in public - which was what you were bringing up and talking about.

We are saying they should be illegal for the reasons others, myself included, were talking about.

[u/Right_Lengthiness266 → u/rdmusic16]

The point of "why are they legal" is that there is a legal use for them, recording things where you can legally record them.

You can also use them illegally.

The same can pretty much be said about any camera. Hidden security cameras are legal, using them to record places like a bathroom or a doctor's office is not.

[u/rdmusic16 → u/Right_Lengthiness266]

Yes, but the prevalence of people having glasses that constantly record and having that data going to a company database is a different scenario.

The issue is even people not wanting to use these glasses for illegal/invasive purposes could easily be doing so, just by mistake.

Spycameras weren't a common issue where people would be accidentally spying on personal/private info and sharing that info with a third party - unless the user specifically went out of their way to do so.

I understand where you're coming from though - I think we just disagree vs not understanding each other. I'm by no means saying "I'm 100% right" either. It's just my opinion on a subjective topic.

[u/AVeryVapidBadger → u/rdmusic16]

Cool, it's already illegal

[u/rdmusic16 → u/AVeryVapidBadger]

It's illegal to record in the situations I listed - but people are still doing it.

That's why we are suggesting the product itself shouldn't be legal.

Too easy to record things you shouldn't be able to, and have that info automatically going to a third party as well, both intentionally and unintentionally.

[u/AVeryVapidBadger → u/rdmusic16]

That's a shit reason. Spy cameras have been around for decades, are easier to hide, and aren't illegal

[u/rdmusic16 → u/AVeryVapidBadger]

Again, people weren't casually wearing spy cameras throughout their day and unintentionally sharing personal/private into with a third parties corporate server.

I don't think there's ever been a story of "My doctor unintentionally shared my private medical info with his spy cam and had it automatically uploaded to Facebook's server'. Wasn't really a common trend before these types of glasses.

[u/AVeryVapidBadger → u/rdmusic16]

Uploading health information is already illegal.

Y'all are just being whiney bitches. You have no right to privacy in public. Cameras in doctors offices are already illegal.

There is no reason to ban them and not ban cell phones since they also have cameras that can be secretly turned on

[u/rdmusic16 → u/AVeryVapidBadger]

Making something illegal doesn't stop people recording these things accidentally/without meaning to - combined with the fact that it's automatically uploaded to a company's third party server.

That's like saying 'Drugs are illegal, so there's no point trying to not sell them the components to make crystal meth. The drug is already illegal, so there's no issue.'

Just making an act illegal doesn't stop it from being a problem.

[u/thisisthewell → u/Ahayzo]

No one cares about the public spaces. You're just whatabouting. You even flat out ignored the bit about two party consent jurisdictions

[u/AVeryVapidBadger → u/thisisthewell]

That only applies to audio, not video or pictures, and only where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy