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.

  • @Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow
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    311 year ago

    You seriously think it wouldn’t be trivial to disable the LED?

    And by the time you notice the LED you’ve already been filmed.

    • @[email protected]
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      221 year ago

      It would be trivial to just buy spy cameras already built for spying. The tech already exists

    • @[email protected]
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      211 year ago

      Buddy, have you been on Aliexpress recently? It’s trivial to wire tiny cameras all over your body if you really wanted.

      Not that it matters, I can point an 8K cinema camera at you in public, and you don’t legally get a say.

      • @aesthelete
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        1 year ago

        Not that it matters, I can point an 8K cinema camera at you in public, and you don’t legally get a say.

        This isn’t the case everywhere. Some places have laws with likeness rights if you try to use the footage in commercial productions.

        Two-party consent states also attach legal consequences to secret voice recordings.

        This is strictly legally speaking. People can and do violate the law.

      • Natanael
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        61 year ago

        The led is a simple transistor that happens to glow, just replace it

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Again you can record already without any led while “reading your messages” with your phone. Like I feel they did the expected and necessary.

      Plus is not like there isn’t already available pens, USB chargers, watches or whatever they can come up secret cameras, like if the intention was to secretly record somebody they wouldn’t go with this ones disabling the led… plenty of better less suspicious alternatives.

    • LUHG
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      01 year ago

      Ray ban have had them for years. I hate meta but it’s not just them.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        To be fair that was also a Facebook partnership. This is less news and more product revision

    • @[email protected]
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      -21 year ago

      It took me a 3 second google search to find that it doesn’t work with the LED covered.

      By the time you notice someone’s phone is out you’ve already been filmed. That’s status quo these days, it isn’t any creepier than every single person walking around with a camera in their pocket.