Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.

Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.

And rightfully so.

  • BallShapedManEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    I’ve always wanted a search in my glasses while I drive. Look at that building, it’s cool, what is it? What’s the name of that lake? How far away is that mountain from me? What kind of tree is that? How old is that collapsing building? Etc.

    But I don’t want to be a pervert. I’ve made it nearly 50 years successfully avoiding that.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Any such technology would be used to deliver ads, so imagine you have that capacity but it also constantly throws commercial at you while you’re driving.

      • cyberfae@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Not if you either root and remove spyware, or use a pair that’s only a screen in tandem with a raspberry pi or other development board.

    • XLE@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      If only we could create some kind of machine that could be pointed at something to describe it. That way it wouldn’t be attached to your face all the time