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  • I know that mass surveillance is inevitable, which is why I would prefer the circle to 1984. If they're watching us, we might as well watch them.
  • Cops should always behave is such a way that they don't care if they are being recorded.
  • The panopticon is only supposed to look out, not in.
  • don't they know?

    >“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

  • I feel like this is a submarine ad for the glasses by Meta.
  • Clearly, all Big Tech needs to do is to create some version of "Flock-powered" smart glasses and, all of a sudden, U.S. police will become Meta's biggest cheerleaders here.
  • They'll be fine. As the police often say, if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide.
  • This kind of thing just reeks as a meta marketing ploy. My eyes were opened when I started attending some marketing all-hands at my last FANG employer. They do this kind of thing all of the time.

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