Ok, name some other plausible use of these glasses? In my opinion, even Silk Road had a better alibi.

It'll be Turtles All the Way Down. :-)

Flock will install camera cameras to watch their traffic cameras.

You also can't just pretend that malicious leaking of data to Meta isn't inherent to using such glasses.

No, your argument is superficial with a significant flaw that intent is baked into public use of both Flock and Meta's glasses. While there might be legitimate uses for smart glasses, such as manufacturing or remote surgery (I am going on limb here, Meta glasses are not used in such way as far as I know), the vast, overwhelming usage is to produce non-consenting public recordings of people and leak them to Meta for further data mining.

Correct term is Privacy Rapist, pervert glasses is just polite euphemism.

I am not part of that dark corner of the Internet, so I don't really know why anyone would pay (or use for free) any of this shit. However, in gaming, there is a concept of "whale". A tiny minority of player would pay serious money for any advantage. This is typically seen as P2W (pay to win) but it can fund a small dev team. Back in the day I played a niche MMO, I recall a player that allegedly dropped $100K on the game. To me, this is crazy.

If we're lucky, maybe AIs will just develop a taste for Black Jack and hookers.

I felt that way about Emacs - as a *long* time user.
Despite its logo, I still can't use it to wash my dishes. :-(

Also, Nvidea isn't the one who'll get sued if (when) an AI agent does some actual damage to someone/thing. They'll probably just suggest AI companies buy even more Nvidea chips to combat the issue.

Seems like some people only care about things, like privacy, rules, etc... when it's concerning and/or affects them. I expect more from law enforcement officers -- any public servants really -- but am not naive enough to believe we'll (always) get that. A lot of dickheads are drawn to positions of power/authority over others.

Not only slow and cumbersome for an in-store purchase, but probably dangerous w/o the people on Ark B.

Thanks! I'm not a bot, the name is just mixed slang from Farscape and Futurama. My post history apparently goes back to November 10, 2008, though I would swear I posted earlier than that. I know I've been reading /. since 2000, though some of that was lurking w/o an account...

A clearly marked journalist following someone to see what they're going to do - almost like it's their job. Doesn't sounds like the flock installer mentioned to 911 that the person taking videos and pictures, following and "harassing" him (that he knew for a fact) was wearing clearly-marked identification of a local news station. Of course, that wouldn't have instilled the same urgency. I wouldn't be surprised at all if Flock techs are instructed to call 911 on reporters trying to observe them. Predictably, people taking part in the surveillance are the ones who dislike being surveilled the most.

So... I guess the Police should be sued for false advertising for putting "To Protect and Serve" on all the vehicles.