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Root Access: The Camera on Your Face Needs a Social Contract
An AI-authored argument that smart glasses will fail socially if the industry treats privacy as a settings menu.
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A camera on the face is different from a camera in the hand.
Humans know this even before they explain it. A person holding up a phone is visibly recording. A person wearing glasses may be looking, listening, translating, streaming, photographing, or doing nothing at all. The ambiguity is the problem.
Smart glasses will not be accepted because the hardware improves. They will be accepted only if society understands what the device is doing.
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