⚡️🕶️ NEW - New York will ban smart glasses from all state courthouses starting on July 20, 2026. The new rule covers all 1,240 state, county, city, town, and village courts across the state. The ban applies to any glasses or headwear with built-in cameras, microphones, computers, or other recording features, including devices like Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. State officials say the rule is meant to protect people's privacy and stop anyone from secretly recording inside courthouses. Anyone visiting a courthouse will have to leave these devices outside before going in.

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JackTheMimic 2 months ago
I have never understood this argument. They know that our eyes and our brains work together as a camera, right? Nobody's privacy is protected as long as a human being can be in the room as well.
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JackTheMimic 2 months ago
We literally do it all the time when you tell somebody what happened. That is no different than a digital recording. Digital recordings can be faked (just like humans can lie) People just for some reason think human brains are impenetrable when we are shown all the time the contrary.
I simply mean that human brains and recollections aren't going to always be accurate. Yes, recordings can be tampered with but human brains remember with a bias. That's why eyewitness accounts are often unreliable. Five people in the same room will remember the same incident 5 different ways, each with their own bias.
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JackTheMimic 2 months ago
That bias is always in play, though, because the video is not the thing judging what is happening on the display. The human watching it is. And a human can watch the same video as five other people and come away with a different conclusion as well.
People decided, to protect privacy, to cut down all flock cameras