I understand how creepy this is but why is this any different than the 1000s of cameras on poles literally everywhere these days. Neither of these should be acceptable

Camera's on poles are obvious, they are mostly immobile apart from some pan tilt zoom, they are subject to privacy and data retention laws, they are announced with signage, they serve a specific public or private interest (like security), they are some auditable entity's respontibility and they don't have anywhere near the resolution you can get on the ground with a camera strapped to your face.

The guy with the meta glasses is a huge questionmark on all of that, including intentions and when they are actually recording.