we don't shame smart glasses wearers enough

Wombat sent me the above picture: A physical ad by Apple on a big canvas. Pictured is a person hiding their face with their iPhone, but therefore actually pointing the camera at the people seeing the ad. It says: "Safari. A browser that's actually private." and "Privacy. That's iPhone." It's accidentally perfectly demonstrating the limitations in current popular privacy discourse and movement: The fact that devices or software may claim to keep the users private, but not people in general, especially not the people the users point these devices at. Privacy, as it is commonly practiced and advertised, is for the person inflicting the damage onto their surroundings, not their surroundings. Privacy, in the mainstream, is seen as this highly personal, individualized thing; something you buy into, switch into, invest time becoming "good" at. Everyone is fending for themselves, arming up on their own. Your choices seem to reflect something about your values and how well you understand the…