Discreet devices and software are recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?

TLDR: Techbros in SF are wearing AI pins that record everything everyone says around them.

“My general sense is that we should assume we are being recorded at all times,” said Clara Brenner, a partner at venture capital firm Urban Innovation Fund. “Of course, this is a horrible way to live your life.”

Damn right it is. Every day one step closer to dystopia. Fuck this shit.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
    21·
    8 hours ago

    In a techno utopia, it would be nice to use something like this to have perfect memory. Assuming it was private, self-hosted and open source.

    In reality, these are likely vendor locked hardware attached to cloud services awaiting their first massive security breach. A privacy nightmare that will just become more e-waste

    • EngineerGaming@retrolemmy.com
      8·
      7 hours ago

      Even if it’s private and independent, I would feel uneasy with that. I might want to store and analyze the recordings of my life - but would people that I caught on camera want the same?..

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
        31·
        7 hours ago

        I think of it like a memory. I can remember seeing people, they don’t have to consent to my having a memory of them.

        I think it is the same if the memory is stored on electronic storage. Though, I would not trust something so private to a cloud service. It would have to be a secure storage that only I physically control and have the ability to decrypt.

        Black Mirror did an episode about this, if you haven’t seen it. It’s called “The Entire History of You”. Obviously, since it is Black Mirror, they present a dystopian take.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
            2·
            7 hours ago

            Humans have been extending and improving on our biological capabilities using technology since before recorded history. Improving our memory seems like it will eventually happen also.

            I do completely understand why this would be a nightmare in practice. Governments would claim that they had the right to search it and it could still be stolen or accessed by unauthorized bad people.

  • Creddit@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 hours ago

    Two party consent laws in California come down to a “reasonable expectation of privacy” and that has been worked out in the legal system over time to be pretty much any place with an open door or window, even a conference room inside a private business is fair game if the door is open to the hallway.

    • zeca@lemmy.ml
      19·
      10 hours ago

      This is still a bit of a nightmare. This being illegal will prevent people from showing the recordings publicly, but if they record for private use, no one would prevent them, or even know…