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Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.
And rightfully so.
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Well, yeah. You wouldn’t allow someone to film at a swimming pool with their phone. Stealth cameras of any form are immediately far more suspicious.
Creeper peepers
And now with zero indicator light that it’s recording
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kylie-jenner-meta-glasses-fascist_n_6a565e74e4b0540b8c7b111a
Because that’s what they are?
Not true! You could be a freelance CIA agent/pizza delivery man and world’s greatest swordsman (despite having never been in a real fight)
Yeah, and won’t someone think about those poor contractors over at Meta? How else are they going to meet their AI circlejerk quota and rank all of that increasingly disturbing novel content if they can’t watch it through their glasses on their train rides to and from the office? Let’s have some compassion here folks!
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Ugh, just typing that made me nauseous
I was describing a fiction novel from 1993 that every Facebook product is based on.
Oh - I love this angle!!!
Spread the word bros! I’ll only call them pervert glasses from now on
I’ve never met a pervert that didn’t embrace that name.
I’d wear them if they didn’t have a camera - the idea of a little screen and the music/phone call capabilities baked into something I have to wear every waking moment anyways actually sounds really nice. I’d probably turn off the display after the novelty wore off, but the audio alone is still worth it to me.
yeah the camera is the troublesome part. Thing is it is useful for camera tracking.
No way, microphone is much worse
microphone has many more basic uses. taking notes. voice command. I mean we all realize all the smartphones have both of these things right. I mean that is why I don’t really like them but I would more like AR although realistically not in a corp is controlling everything way. If it was open source and local and under my control that would be super cool.
Eh. It’s already pretty easy to conceal a microphone. Harder to conceal a camera.
Actually something I worry about …… my glasses have tiny embedded magnets for “click-on” sunglasses. Maybe they could be mistaken for tiny cameras on pervert glasses
It’s actually pretty easy to conceal. there’s plenty of investigative reporting with hidden cameras and nobody’s none the wiser. The fact that they have to add a light to the glasses proves that even if you hide it in plain sight, people will still miss it.
The Even G2 is screen, audio and no camera. https://www.evenrealities.com/products/g2-a
I’ve never heard of these, will check them out
Then why don’t you buy the Bose ones?
Likely because they only do audio.
Don’t think you read last line of their original message?
Bose needs to spend more on advertising, I’m the correct audience but I had no idea they made these.
Tell me if you need my info for finder’s fee?
Reframing
Nice
Nice
google was the first to make pervert glasses, did people not learn from this.
The companies learned that they needed to let the concept wait a few years before being reintroduced
Aren’t the glassholes extinct by now?
With Google glasses, it was this strange contraption over one eye, so it was easy to shun or shame them into taking it off when at a conference or in a public bathroom (saw it happen many times).
Problem with these are that the wearer can claim they’re prescription, even though there’s a camera and mic on them. And there are tons of stickers and covers you can buy online to hide the little recording indicator.
There were also stories that these would soon autorecord/stream everything, and use AI to transcribe what was said and identify anyone encountered. Presumably so you could later go back and review something that you missed.
What we have are essentially millions of portable Flock cameras with infinite storage and personal ID built in.
I always had the idea of using them to cheat in exams !
Surveillance glasses.
(If “pervert” is too much in a discussion)
Exactly
Down with camera glasses!
Now back to regularly scheduled perv camera phone existence.
Don’t call them that!
Slandering the innocent perverts of the world by association with Facebook isn’t gonna make 'em quit marketin spookware to assholes who oughta know better. =U
Yeah this problem goes far beyond Eugene and Rusty
I remember a long time ago I did buy camera glasses in 2016 and they were 720p (allegedly) but were 100% disconnected and you needed a cable to get your stuff out of there.
Why did I get them? Because they were a good way of being a tourist and recording things from your POV without a camera. Also I bought many for a spy themed evented I was attending.
These are just terrifying.
You either get bought by Google as a start up, or live long enough to see yourself make all of Google’s mistakes.
same way the monkeywrench got its name maybe
You know what there should be a pull-down menu option on all phones called, “Radius” and it puts up a censored image over you like a box or a blur that can not be removed by any smart glasses wearer but can be removed by LEO’s if needed. It could use the compasses proximity sensor and identify smart glasses in the area. Could be a nice addition to Android or Graphene.
That’s impossible. The information is already gathered, you could just be sending a beacon out saying “please don’t process this”.
What’s to stop them from ignoring that?
Literally a black mirror episode
Better yet the glasses should just blur any human or replace them with an avatar.
