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Comment Re:This is a weird little hit piece (Score 2) 137

No, you can't be surreptitious with a cell phone.

You can't be surreptitious with a well known, branded camera containing device attached to your face.

With a cellphone? Sure you can. You hold it in your hand to read something on the screen - which way are the (front and back) lenses facing? How is anyone to know wether you're recording video vs innocently reading something?
You hold it to your ear to have a call, the rear lens is facing away from you - pointing at what?
You put it in your shirt pocket, modern phones are big enough that the lens will protrude out of the top so it can see infront of you just as well as glasses could. Is anyone going to notice this and question if the phone in your pocket is actively recording?
You drop your phone on the floor, at least one of the lenses is facing upwards - looking up someone's skirt?
There have been lots of cases of perverts using phones to record under people's skirts on public escalators too...

In Japan locally sold phones don't let you turn off the shutter sound when you take a photo, but in other countries they do. And even in Japan this doesn't apply to video.

Comment Re:This is a weird little hit piece (Score 1) 137

And what's to stop these perverts doing the same thing with hidden cameras, phones, CCTV etc?

If someone approached you with a large video camera on their shoulder and started asking you questions, you'd automatically assume you were being recorded right?
If someone approached you with a phone camera raised up so that the lens is pointing at you, you'd also automatically assume you were being recorded?

If you didn't want to be recorded in these situations, you'd refuse to talk to this person until they turned the camera off, right?

So if someone approaches you wearing a known brand/model of camera equipped glasses, why would you assume that they are not recording?
If you don't want to be recorded, why wouldn't you demand that the wearer remove the glasses and put them away?

There is nothing covert about a pair of branded and well publicized glasses stuck on the front of someone's face. You can see what they are, you know what they are capable of. Someone with a concealed camera is much more dangerous, and tiny concealed cameras have existed for a long time.

Comment Re:This is a weird little hit piece (Score 2) 137

How exactly does wearing a pair of branded and recognizable glasses which are known to contain a camera conceal the fact that you could be recording video?

That's like having a traditional video camera on your shoulder, or pretty much any smartphone in your hand - everyone knows what it is, everyone knows it can record video.

How about a pervert who isn't wearing glasses and isn't carrying a phone, but has a hidden buttonhole camera?

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