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  • It’ll be way, way worse than what you’re thinking because of prevention mechanisms for corporate espionage, and just regular old espionage for that matter. The technology to remotely shutdown/control cars that everyone agrees exists today, and is a problem today? It’s coming to eyes in the future. You won’t be allowed to work for company X unless they get the keys to control the recording function on your eyes, because otherwise you could walk off with their recipes or whatever. It’s even a completely understandable “ask,” but as with the cars, TVs, cell phones, smart watches, etc, there’s no user/owner level control over restrictions. You can’t unplug your eyes the way you can a car cell antenna.

    It’s a good time to talk about it since the technology isn’t here yet, because the first implementations of it will be desperate volunteers who’ll sign up for anything to get sight, and it’ll be really hard to argue to someone who had some irreversable, company proprietary device installed on the end of their optic nerve the ins and outs of why the signed away the rights to know if their eyes are recording them and transmitting without their knowledge.