Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’::These stylish shades may look like a regular pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, but they’re actually Meta’s new Smart Glasses, complete with two tiny cameras and speakers implanted in the arms. The wearable tech was unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday at the 2023 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, sparking a frenzy online.
NYPost.
come on now
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Google glass 2.0
A quick search on Amazon for “spy camera” finds a bunch of devices small enough to easily conceal inside clothing, built in to pens, and built in to watches. A search for “spy camera glasses” finds exactly that, and most of them are well under $300. We’re already well into the era of being able to film everyone without them knowing.
I think it is just a matter of convenience. Very few people buy lasers to aim them at airplanes. Give everyone a laser and you’ll get a thousand reports of people aiming lasers at their plane.
Those at least don’t automatically sync to Zuck.
They aren’t directly connected to a social network and promoted with vast marketing resources however.
I remember playing with one of these about 10 years ago that looked like a car key fob, it recorded somewhat subpar footage in a weird format to a microSD card. A neat novelty but not very practical to use unless you really had a need to do covert surveillance of something, which most people don’t.
However if it’s made to be effortless to push watchable footage to social media, and people are heavily encouraged and incentivised to do so and it’s a different proposition.
People aren’t a fan of those existing either, but not much you can do about it. At least, you can assume that it’s only a tiny fraction of people who own these devices, let alone carry them around, ready to go.
With these glasses, more people will own them and will have them ready to go, on their nose.Those cameras only record locally.
These glasses presumably upload every frame to corporate data centers to be cataloged and used to profile the people in the images.
‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’ Implying that we dont already have cameras always with us, and can perfectly do that.
A bunch of corporations been recording me and using my data for their own gain for a decade. Now you tell me some normie is going to record me? Do I care?
Not all surveillance is created equal.
Holy sh*!!
Doesn’t it have a ‘recording’ LED?
Remember the good ol’ times when some guy stepped up in the cinema, stood in front of the audience, right when the movie was about to start:
“OK, Google!”
:-)
Not a thing was learned from Google Glass huh? Alrighty then.
I almost like the idea of augmented reality with similar tech. I’d love it if I could look down the street and see historic photos of building overlaid perfectly.
The issue isn’t the technology, it’s the people who are supplying it and it’s connection to the Internet and sharing. I don’t trust Google and I don’t trust Meta.
I was referring to the privacy issues of Google Glass. I’m with you on the trust factor of these two companies.
Would be cool if we got some open source glasses. If Niantic made glasses for Pokemon Go, Google is their parent, no bueno.
Niantic’s been an independent company since Alphabet was formed almost a decade ago and they were spun out.
Google Glass at least had a screen. This appears all phony based
I think the lesson they learned from Google Glass is that the glasses have to be cooler, not make you look like a nerd, and the technology has to be way better.
Umm… what the hell is that thumbnail? https://i.imgur.com/0l2TAh3.png
Some girl eating pizza.
It’s the thumbnail provided by the article, found inside the html
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I miss when CCTV was a world ending privacy concern. Its gotten so much worse in the last decade.
Downvote all news corpse articles
This might actually be useful for when the cops pull you over. Or if you get bad service in a shop you’ll have a video of it.
This is exactly the kind of fear mongering that they are hoping people will buy into.
NYPost is right wing trash.
Out of the loop, do you need a facebook/meta account (if yes, how much info they requested) to use the glasses ?
Yes. And yes
Cant wait for the hackaday firmware
On the one hand I can’t remember the many people I see at work and would love heads-up display saying names, birthdays and reminding me what we spoke about.
On the other hand I don’t like cameras recording my socially embarrassing actions in the first place, let alone tell people who I am. Like hell I want Zuck to know what stupid shit I said 4 years ago to that one person I won’t see ever again.
