Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear

I hope this is just prohibited in the EU :-) If I see someone recording me(whether they did or not), I'll use my legal insurance to sue them into oblivion.

There's an imaginary boundary of when technology starts to hurt humanity, and this clearly crosses it in so many ways.

I can't believe the people behind this haven't thought about the negative sides, even if they deliver what they said in terms of privacy, it's so wrong in so many levels. Did they use ChatGPT to generate that silly idea?

This is when you know AI hype has hit cryptocurrency level, where stupid ideas start popping all the time and supposedly raising money.

It's time to grab popcorn and see VCs fund those stupid ideas and see them wasting their money.

Do you sue everyone that has a phone? Where's the line? Is it the form factor?

If they take a picture of me and I know it, yes. You can't see my house on Google Maps.

I live in a civilized country with some privacy laws, which will likely just pump out more laws once silly products like this start popping in the market.

> I hope this is just prohibited in the EU :-)

That would make no sense.

This device is very similar to what I've pursued for a short time.

Almost every country (with a notable exception of several US states) allow to record conversations for personal use. You just cannot distribute them to third-parties without consent.

If you record me without my consent, and I know it, good luck!

I have seen verbal fights on the streets of Germany where one side has pulled out their smartphone and started recording. The other person was shouting "don't record me", but the recording person was insisting it was because the other person was breaking some obscure law.

I did not sit to see what the police would have done with the material once they came, but are we sure they would dismiss it immediately, provided it had indeed broke some law?

Do you just not go out into public? What about stores with security cameras? What about tourists taking pictures with you in the background?

Germans are really concerned about their privacy. Do you believe if that would be the norm, they wouldn't vote for politicians to completely abolish recording devices out of existence?

Just some food for thought

I do live and enjoy a normal life, but if I feel threatened by some silly device I won't just stare and accept that it's how things are.

The same goes for pictures.

Here it is for you how it works in Germany: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/photography-laws-germany

Yes, so concerned, they have their names on their doorbells everywhere.

and good luck to you getting anything done through European courts!