Do it. These things are just a tiny step away from face-scanning surveillance - https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/
it’s a shame that people with visual impairments are losing out on valuable systems but the perverts have already shown how easy the indicator light is to overcome. creeps ruin shit for everyone.
how easy the indicator light is to overcome
Not that showing an indicator light would be enough, anyway. I don’t want to have an explicit conversation with every Tom, Dick and Harry about whether they’re allowed to stream me to Meta, and I don’t have the means to sue them if they ignore my stated nonconsent or hide the filming in some other way.
And it really is a shame, smartglasses would be amazing opportunities for all kinds of legit applications if it wasn’t for the complete lack of ethics of the involved companies and many governments.
Why give them the benefit of the doubt. Surveillance is exactly what they’re being made for.
They hide behind the benevolent uses of technology and its disgusting how they go about it. I’ve been saying it before, tech is a modern religion. It’s been co-opted by those who use it as cover to do evil. They act as the gatekeeper as if the only way to tech utopia is through them.
Think of the poor disabled children! You wouldn’t want to deny them the gift of sight would you??? Now wear the glasses and record everything and look at the ads. Or would you rather deprive poor blind little Billy over there.
That shit is played. Trillion dollar tech companies don’t need anymore quarterly growth to do things like build assistive technologies. The world could have had this technology in particular years ago with no frills. Or any other type of technological aid.
Zuck just needs another yacht or two. That’s what this is really about. Hiding behind the disabled like ghouls that they are. No different than those evangelical megachurch assholes who own private planes.
. Hiding behind the disabled like ghouls that they are.
entirely agree, but watch - there’s gonna be blind people giving testimonials to congress about how they can’t live without the tech, orchestrated by the creeps who want to keep making the creep glasses. they’ll beat the public over the head with ‘why do you want to take this great tool away from the blind’ - WATCH.
When in fact they’re the ones ruining the tech for everyone, especially the disabled.
It’ll be interesting to see how this is worded such that the legislation bans these glasses without banning police body cameras and without stating yet another privilege that comes with being law enforcement.
Before anyone misreads the above and thinks it’s an endorsement of these glasses or their frequent use for perverted purposes: it’s not.
I think it is intended more for the relatively hidden cameras on some glasses. A body cam (at least currently) looks pretty obviously like a recording device, whereas some of the perv goggles can hide the lense pretty well.
I know the intent, I’m just speculating as to what the design will be.
Unless you’re hinting at that design being that it could explicitly state that “hidden” cameras are banned, at which point we have to get into the weeds of what’s considered “hidden.” Meta’s lawyers will of course argue that:
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The lens is very visible
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The additional bulky asymmetric frame gives away that there’s a computer
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They’re so famous that everyone knows they’re Meta Glasses at a glance, which comes with recording implications
Body cameras aren’t as obviously body camera as you think; my lapel speaker/microphone was regularly confused for a body camera.
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Those glasses make his face somehow even more punchable
At this point these project failures HAVE to be tax minimisation strategy more than anything else. Simple cost shifting and over claiming losses to reduce taxable income.
In many countries of this world it already is illegal to film in public space they way you would with such glasses. Thus making them practically unusable and only fully legal in private rooms or areas.
I think it is not enough in this case. It is not obvious that they are filming and iits too late if they are live streaming. I don’t know if it is possible now, but surely it’s arriving sooner or later.
It’s like filming with a hidden camera in a bag or so. Also, not obvious, can do live streaming aswell. Both are still illegal, regardless of what the greatest dipshit of our times is trying to push down people’s throats. I do prefer the fakebook glasses though compared to the hidden cam in a bag, because it is a bit easier to spot, thus I can punch the sucker in the face legally to protect my rights. I mean take off - gently of course - his new shiny expensive camera glasses and smash it, since it is possibly recording and streaming. Breaking it is the only way to prevent further illegal action. Being a little silly here, but you get the point. If I ever see some of those in the jurisdiction I live, it is certainly going to make some news in the local paper.
They should be allowed (and issued free of charge) to blind people. For everyone else, gfy
Eh maybe if there wasn’t any recording capability just live feed
How would they show the picture?
