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I usually can figure out when I am being filmed by a smartphone and ask people not to do this.


Smartphones are the easy ones. It's the surveillance cameras on store fronts, speed cameras/license plate scanners on the poles, and dash cameras you are probably caught the most on.

And that's not counting other wearable cameras, such as the Meta RayBans mentioned elsewhere in this conversation.


And if they refuse?


Then I can walk away


I do. If I try to film something in public I am very aware that people notice this and that I should not be pointing my phone camera at their children, etc. It is not that easy to get away with filming others unnoticed with a smartphone.


Seems like putting the phone in a shirt pocket or just pretending to use it while filming on a wide angle lens would both be a lot less noticeable than someone with a giant headset constantly tripping over themselves.


And your concern is that people wearing giant face computing ski goggles with a creepy version of their eyes, pointed at your kids, is somehow going to be more inconspicuous than someone taking a picture of the kids with a smartphone?

Thats insane. Anyway the whole point is moot because you can’t wear it out and about. It has boundary limits


This is naive. Let's say you go to a restaurant and the waiter has the headset on. Or you go to a theater and the doorman has one. I would like to have a way to communicate directly that I don't appreciate being filmed without asking.


What in the world would a waiter or a doorman be using this for while on the job? Also, you are already being filmed at the restaurant, or the theater entrance. If you enter someone's property they don't need your permission to film you.


> If you enter someone's property they don't need your permission to film you.

Not particularly relevant to the question here, but worth mentioning that there are exceptions for places with an expectation of privacy, such as bathrooms and lodging rentals (hotel rooms, interior space of an Airbnb, etc.).


Show a "I don't want to be filmed" sentence encoded in a QR code on your t-shirt and enforce legally that unless you a specific license you have to shut your camera.

Aka real-life "do not track" header ?


I would leave that restaurant and not enter that theater.


I don't see why new privacy standard can not appear now even though a problem has gotten bad already. There is no need to have this defeatist attitude.


I am all ears for suggestions on how to actually do that then.

What will the regulations be?

How do you get the government to want to implement such policies?

How do you enforce them?

How do you get around corporate lobbying against changes to their business operations?


I have no answers to your questions but a few things ping ponging around in my head landed on "lewd content". This would not help government regulations and might even violate some rules but much like law enforcement officers blasting copyrighted music to keep videos of them offline there could probably be something similar to keep recorded content from being rebroadcasted / published.

Perhaps there is a way to create clothing that when viewed by the human eye appears "normal" but then when viewed by a camera will appear highly offensive and perhaps even contain keywords that big platforms will go out of their way to censor.

Maybe it's a dumb direction to think on my part or a dumb idea in general, I don't know.


I think the roadmap could be as follows:

1. A standard appears to communicate that you don't want to be filmed (let's say QR code) 2. Some consumer-friendly company follows to implement it 3. EU publishes a directive in Europe for devices to respect this requirement (with some exceptions for security surveillance, etc) 4. Eventually even some of USA companies follow on with this practise


https://github.com/did-1 https://writer.did-1.com/

DID is novel decentralized social media infrastructure that empowers users to own and distribute their content. Think of it like a decentralized Twitter where the data is entirely in the user's hands and where everyone is free to post content and subscribe to new posts. It could be also be compared to decentralized global RSS feed.


I was not aware of AT protocol. So even if there are any similarities I invented this independently.


Ok, well, I would bet that any consumer of your newfound protocol and its DID-but-not-that-DID system will still value knowing how yours differs from the AT protocol, and extra credit for whether their concepts are interoperable

So, while you may not have known at the time, it will be in your best interest to have an answer and it would be stellar to put said comparison in your GitHub repos to prevent every single person from "emailing you to collaborate"


Thanks for informing! I guess the name can be changed, but I had to start somewhere :)


Check out https://namechecker.vercel.app if you want to see if a project name has already been taken.


Thanks for the tip. However I don't think the name is that important here. This is an open source decentralized system and the name can be changed.


I would say information is a form of compression. You observe reality, then compress what you see as information and pass it to another observer. Understanding is the ability to compress and decompress information. Decompressed information can become action or emotion.


Amazing job! I tried to summarize Lithuanian article. It did a pretty good job, but for some reason alphabet letters such as ąčęėįšž that are unique to Lithuanian were missing from the output.

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://www.delfi.lt/news/d...


Triumphant pride precipitates a dizzying fall


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