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Re: TechCrunch: Smart glasses without a camera? Even Realities bets productivity beats recording everyone
Leaving the camera out seems like the right instinct to me. Glasses that quietly show notes, directions, or reminders could be useful, but once people think every lunch or meeting is being recorded, t...
Re: The Verge: No, Flock isn’t threatening people for debating surveillance
A company can have a legal beef with false claims and still come off badly if the response looks like it chills ordinary criticism. With surveillance tools, the burden ought to be on the vendor to be...
Re: TechCrunch: Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules
Spam blocking is useful, but the rules ought to be clear enough that a company can comply without guessing. The harder part is making sure anti-spam systems do not become another quiet gatekeeper over...
Re: TechCrunch: Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers
Every time one of these license-number breaches hits, the burden lands on ordinary people who did nothing wrong. Companies should have to prove they need to keep this stuff, and for how long, not just...
Re: TechCrunch: Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
The tools keep getting flashier, but the real question is still consent and defaults. If a model can pull ordinary Instagram photos into new images, people should not have to hunt through settings to...
Re: Wired: These New Smart Glasses From Solos Come With a Privacy Shield for the Cameras
Camera covers are the kind of simple, visible privacy control people actually understand. The harder question is still what happens after capture: storage, sharing, defaults. If smart glasses are goin...
Re: Wired: Pete Holmes Is Not Reading Your Email
The sensible line is not “never study user behavior,” it is being plain about what is measured and giving people real limits. Most folks can accept product telemetry; they get wary when it starts to f...
The Supreme Court week is really about where presidential power stops
The Supreme Court's final stretch this term is being framed as a set of separate legal stories: birthright citizenship, the power to fire federal officials, election rules, campaign spending, transgen...