Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’
With Meta's new range of smart glasses, Mark Zuckerberg is pitching a vision of the future that sci-fi authors have been warning about for decades - one where privacy is truly dead, and everyone is recording everyone else at all times.
This in itself is nothing new. Introduced at the company's recent Meta Connect event, the glasses represent the tech industry's second major attempt at normalizing ubiquitous wearable surveillance devices, more than a decade after Google's failed entry into the space with Google Glass. Back then, people wearing the experimental (and stupid-looking) tech were mocked as "Glassholes" - reminiscent of characters …