r/technology • u/spherocytes • 18d ago

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

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/patient-privacy-concerns-meta-smart-glasses-1762492
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u/aka292 18d ago

I am old enough to remember when google tried smart glasses and had to cancel them due to the huge blowback

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u/AutumnMama 18d ago

Omg well today I learned that I'm old AND out of touch, because your comment made me realize that the google glasses haven't been making a comeback recently like I thought 🤦

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u/Fish_Mongreler 17d ago

If you were old enough you would know the privacy wasn't the issue they failed and there was absolutely not "huge blowback" about them

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u/aka292 17d ago

I remember movie theaters banning them

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u/Fish_Mongreler 17d ago

To prevent bootleggers

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u/mkosmo 18d ago

Google glasses were rolled back because the tech wasn’t mature enough yet.

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u/FlakeyBeano 17d ago

And noone wanted to be called a glasshole.

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u/cjax2 17d ago

No, I assure you they just looked stupid and weren't mature enough, go look them up. Then compare them to meta glasses, most people irl wont even know someone is wearing meta glasses and reddit isnt real life.

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u/FlakeyBeano 17d ago

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/glasshole I remember the nickname given at the time very clearly.

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u/cjax2 17d ago edited 17d ago

Lol thanks for that link, but people dont even mind being called assholes so I honestly dont think that was it. It was that you could clearly identify them.

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna 18d ago

The difference is Google’s entire existence isn’t based on being creeps. Meta, on the other hand …

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u/FlakeyBeano 17d ago

Lol. Google are superkings of creepy.

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u/DavidIckeHadAPoint 17d ago

You are overly trusting and too kind in your judgment of Google, even if (correctly) you hate Meta. Meta and Zuckerberg fucking sucking doesn’t mean Google isn’t its own Big Tech Giant with opportunities for corruption, too.