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... When the woman contacted the account owner to request the video's removal, he replied that taking it down was a "paid service." She refused to pay and reported the matter to the police. The social media platforms removed the clip and banned at least one account, but whatever goes on the internet stays on the internet; copies and reposts of the footage kept appearing on other profiles.

Smart glasses with built-in cameras make abuse like this easier because they look like ordinary eyewear and record discreetly. Some models have a recording indicator, but such a tiny light can be easy to miss. Some users even try to hide the light by covering it up. ...

@#11 ... Recording another person in a public place is not illegal, because there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. ...

I do not disagree.

But then, I will also add, how that recording is used may present issues that our current law has not yet caught up with.

As another example, look at the FLOCK cameras that are being installed. When our current law was enacted, were things like FLOCK cameras imagined?

Welcome to DeFlock
https://deflock.org/
An open-source project mapping license plate readers.

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States react to FLOCK?

@#12

Did you know that the cameras provide that level of monitoring?

And feeding into the database?