2 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

Oh marvellous. As if being a photographer isn't hard enough these days, here's Meta and their latest range of spy glasses to speed up the race to the bottom. Your girlfriends bottom, possibly.I was just reading on the BBC News ('Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever') about another innovative way to be a dick with a camera. Streep photography is hard enough, especially for men who are quickly seen as creeps, or 'dirty old men' as soon as you get the camera out. Not that I go around taking photos of women or kids, but many photographers do, and while a lot of it is very good, some of it borders on the voyeuristic, and intrusive. The difference here though, it that while you have a camera in your hand you're not hiding it; a camera in your hand is a very visible thing, it's obvious that it's there (unless you're in the bushes with a 400mm lens), but these glasses throw all of that out of the window. The women only find out about the videos of…

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