Sunday, September 28, 2025

the return of smart glasses

How's this going to work out in Korea, where the law does its nanny-state best to keep perverts from taking upskirt shots by adding undeletable shutter noises to one's camera? As I wrote in a comment to the video below:

I live in Seoul, where there's a ton of paranoia about people taking cell-phone pics, especially naughty ones, inside subways and in other public spaces. Koreans, despite their loud gregariousness, generally hate being photographed or video'ed without permission (which obviously isn't unique to Korean culture; Americans often value their privacy, too, although you wouldn't know it from all the damn TikTokers). Whenever the Samsung version of the glasses comes out, I expect there'll be a whole new set of Korean social mores and laws about when and when not to use these devices. My thinking, though, is that modern humans sold their privacy to Satan decades ago, and there's really nothing that Koreans can do to stop the general trend of video-ing anything and everything. We're all on camera all the time now. Welcome to Orwell's nightmare. But, hey—nice POV video of your ski trip!

 



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