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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Huge Group of Experts Warns Meta That Its Pervert Glasses Will Enable Terrible Crimes (futurism.com)

submitted 1 week ago by sobchak@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Zach777@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can't it just be illegal to record someone without consent or something? Barring whistelblowing use cases. Putting it on the device manufacturers to stop it is rather dystopian and is like the age verification laws going into affect so they can shut down foss.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

I'm totally down with that. exception of the police and government officials. of course, it'd never happen because it would make commercial surveilance cameras illegal.