Agree - basically tech that can see what people do, is creepy. and as you suggest - others can engage, but we don't control that.

Currently, it's somewhat obvious, but what happens when the tech is totally invisible?

That day is coming very soon, within a decade, max, and you have to imagine every thing you ever do, in any place - even in the dark, is recorded.

Arthur C Clarke, and Stephen Baxter wrote a book about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days

Well worth reading, imho, but it does explicitely ignore the concept of a higher presence, which is noteworthy

We know what happens when the tech is invisible. There are thousands of cameras doing facial recognition and license plate tracking and nobody cares. Everything we do is already recorded. Your phone location history, your vehicle location history, all the things you buy and shop for, your search history... But some random wears a pair of glasses and everybody loses their mind.

There’s a difference though - currently, this kind of tech and breadth of surveillance is largely in the hands of corporations and government. In the near future, when things like these glasses are invisible _and_ mildly affordable (even iPhone-price), it becomes a lot more interesting and invasive. Couple that with LLMs that can be used to quickly catalog and index the people in videos, maybe toss in community-driven repositories of peoples’ recordings, and it will be much much harder for anyone to avoid being spotted unless you just don’t leave your house.

Reminds me to check in with the current state of cloaking tech.

for sure - it is inevitable, if you live in modern society. This is a past tense discussion, as it's already happening, even as I type this msg in reddit of course. The only way out is to leave and live in the woods pretty much, but that doesn't stop it, it only delays the engagement.

Google Glass was a loud, clunky script, whereas these are a stealthy, AI-powered rootkit hiding in plain sight. The fundamental change isn't the hardware, it's the social engineering masterstroke of weaponizing fashion to make the public willingly install a backdoor to their entire life.

> I wouldn’t be surprised if people wearing these would get confronted, denied entry or beaten up regularly. I can even totally see them ray-banned legally.

I really, really hope you're not advocating for that. That's straight up violence, not in self defence.

Depends on the jurisdiction and circumstances. In my country filming someone without their consent is also illegal. In a situation where someone feels violated in their privacy, when words didn’t work, force may be required. Advocating or not, it’s likely going to happen. Pointing a camera at someone‘s face obnoxiously tends to escalate situations. Mix alcohol, testosterone and happenstances and you got yourself broken glasses. Try that with a phone camera today and report back.