Years ago people discussed if having a mobile next to the body could be bad for health, specially brain, now we see doctors using smart glasses with wifi 5 and 5g mobile network.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2026
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That's a weird a.i.-generated doctor. O.o
There is no question that this violates doctor patient confidentiality and damages trust. Fuck no. Even if they fucking have to not take off their clothes NO.
Yes, dipshits like that should be banned from the medical profession.
That seems like a HIPAA violation because it’s unknown eyes and ears in the exam room.
It is really upsetting that we can't get actually good "smart glasses". Like, glasses that have a little screen projected on the lenses and can do searches and stuff for you on the fly, or display text like a script or something, or watch a video, or see your music playlist...
Why does everyone trying to make "smart glasses" feel compelled to include a fucking hidden camera?? And now it's even worse with the AI riddle surveillance state we are living in. I won't even be a little surprised to find out that Meta's pervert glasses are being co-opted by Flock to add even more cameras to their "safety" network...
I want smart glasses like a smart watch: a quick glance to see a message, workout data, maybe GPS directions, that's about it.
No camera needed.
Those do exist. They're just expensive. Look up the Even Realities G2 smart glasses. They have a monochrome heads up display, conversation analysis, live translate, notifications from your phone, time, date ect. Oh, and there is no camera on them by design (the developers understand and acknowledge that a camera is a huge privacy risk). They also have an open SDK and developer tools so that you can make your own apps for them. They're kind of like real life E.D.I.T.H. glasses.
Do you know if the microphone can be disabled? Or the features that use it? Basically I’d want glasses like these that primarily react to inputs I make on my phone or show things the phone can figure out based on my location etc. I’d want to be 100% certain no audio is being recorded or even uploaded to a translation service.
The microphone can't be disabled unfortunately. The developers claim that all audio recordings are deleted immediately after the glasses provide a response, however their privacy policy does mention that some necessary personal data may be processed by third parties in countries like China, Japan, and the U.S.
Their privacy policy doesn't actually say who has access to user data.
So you want a screen in front of your eyes, that you need to pull out your other screen to control?
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Yeah, it's unfortunate but until we get robust privacy laws (which won't happen) none of this shit can ever be trusted. Anyone arguing to put more cameras and microphones into our lives at this point should be met with an ass beating. If our politicians were worth anything those laws would have been in place before it ever got this far. Instead they're all bought and paid for.
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The confrontation, shared in a video that has circulated on Reddit, centres on a simple but uncomfortable question: should a doctor be wearing glasses with a built-in camera while examining a patient in an intimate clinical setting?
I hate it when articles do this. Firstly, answer is NO. secondly there's nothing uncomfortable about the question itself because answer is a NO, third there's no need to frame a clear violation of privacy as a question. If it's not acceptable to pull out a phone and start recording in that situation, then it's clearly not acceptable to wear those glasses.
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They need to be banned, agreed. But that doctor needs to have his medical license fully revoked, permanently.
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Having actually read the article, I think that doctor himself should be fired and his license to practice revoked. It's just sounding like another case of the wrong people being entrusted with this kind of technology, so now it's creating an issue. The trust with doctors is more or less corroded as is the trust in the health care system is, so I'm not surprised to learn that some doctor operating on a side-agenda we've yet to know about in his life is the reason here.
I can't believe that image in the thumbnail came from official Meta marketing. I have to imagine that Jared the Subway guy didn't make the cut because he didn't look creepy enough.
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9 out of 10 doctors choose not to wear pervert-glasses.
But that one guy..
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She should have slapped those glasses off his face. Legally speaking it should be fine to punch anyone wearing pervert glasses in the face.
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