Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

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54 Comments

hark@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 160d (31 replies)

I thought smart glasses could be kind of neat, but no way in hell would I get a pair from Meta.

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 68 pts · 160d (15 replies)

A set of FOSS smart glasses powered entirely by local hardware and software that you own and control? That would be kind of neat.

Anything connected to and under the control of a big corporation, though ... miss me with that shit.

CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 160d (13 replies)

Call me conservative but I think that would still suck. A society where everyone has a camera on their nose pointing at you sounds absolutely dreadful.

OwOarchist@pawb.social · -31 pts · 160d (12 replies)

Eh, you're already on a dozen cameras every time you go outside. Security cameras, state surveillance cameras, doorbell cameras, cameras all over every modern car... What's a few more?

CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 160d

No I don‘t because I don‘t live in an Orwellian hellhole (yet) like most people seem to do these days. Even if I did your comment is an admission of absolute capitulation. What a sad worldview.

dovahking@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 160d (3 replies)

Ah yes. The fallacy of you're already being exploited so what's one more time?

OwOarchist@pawb.social · -6 pts · 160d (2 replies)

Really, though -- is that not true?

There is already no expectation of privacy and anonymity anymore. Cameras are already everywhere, more and more of them interconnected and tracking your every step. If you want privacy and anonymity outside of your own home, you need to be wearing a mask, and maybe taking measures to disguise your gait and physical proportions as well. Having slightly more or slightly fewer cameras out there isn't going to change that whatsoever.

oneofmany@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 159d

Yeah! Things are already bad. It's so much simpler to let it get worse than trying to make things better!

stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 159d

Still doesn’t mean I should be okay with some meta glass hole filming me.

SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 160d (6 replies)

Doomism is not the solution

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 160d (4 replies)

If you see a ring door bell, they aren’t hard to kick or rip off the wall.

Actually I’m going to make some informative stickers that happen to cover the camera and sensor of those things. I’ll post them when they’re up.

cpaq47@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d

Lmk, I could def use them. I work in ppls houses in the US. I swear almost half the houses have cameras, 90% ring. It's insane.

OwOarchist@pawb.social · 1 pts · 160d (1 reply)

If you see a ring door bell, they aren’t hard to kick or rip off the wall.

It is a bit more difficult, however, to do that without being caught, since they'll probably have camera footage of you doing it.

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 160d

Cops don’t track people down for porch pirating. They aren’t gonna look for a person in a mask kicking doorbells.

Nima@leminal.space · 0 pts · 160d

calls for vandalism of personal property. not good.

OwOarchist@pawb.social · -4 pts · 160d

Okay, then. I wish you the very best of luck in destroying every camera you see. Hopefully you're wearing a mask and unidentifying clothes every time you go out.

EvilBit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 160d

Check out Brilliant Labs.

https://brilliant.xyz/

darkevilmac@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 160d

Just gotta wait for people to write custom firmware for these things, it's cool hardware but yeah I'm not going to run a Facebook OS on my own hardware

Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 160d (2 replies)

I won't even use my 3d headset that they bought from oculus. it just sits there.

LeTak@feddit.org · 9 pts · 160d (1 reply)

SteamFrame my beloved

ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 160d

We literally have no idea when that's coming out.....

MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 160d (10 replies)

I wish I can look back at my entire day and see what I did. (It will mostly just be computer, kitchen and bathroom only, but still a cool idea)

I changed my mind

queermunist@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 160d (5 replies)

I usually use my memory when I want to look back on my entire day and know what I did.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 10 pts · 160d (4 replies)

Right? Such a great invention. Quality is not always great but huge storage capacity and amazing privacy protections. And its free!

MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 160d (3 replies)

When I look at my game recordings, I can see my mistakes/places to improve.

If I see the steam overlay saying 150 minutes game time, its like "eh. Its long, but I had fun". But if I see an over 2 hour clip of me not leaving my chair, that will make a bigger impact, reminding me how little I do every day

Quazatron@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 160d (2 replies)

Or you can just use your common sense and save yourself the cost of this ugly piece of junk.

People tend to avoid you less if you don't look like a sneaky perv, so that's another bonus.

Plus, you'll not be funding Meta and you'll have one less piece of rubbish in a drawer somewhere that needs recycling after one month of use.

MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d (1 reply)

I'm NEVER buying a Meta product. I'm just saying camera glasses is a cool idea. Shame that its tied being a terrible company.

And if you noticed, I only mentioned using it in my own home. Never out in public.

Quazatron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d

Enhance your calm, I agree with you.

It's one of those things that sounds great in sci-fi, like flying cars, until you realise that the world is full of awful people that immediately repurpose any new tech for filthy lucre / inflicting suffering / power grabbing.

Zombie@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 160d (3 replies)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You

You'll maybe reevaluate that position after watching this episode of Black Mirror.

Endlessly torturing yourself over minute details throughout each day doesn't sound fun or healthy to me.

MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d (1 reply)

Well... Fuck

I'm glad I have the day off tomorrow cause now I need to process some stuff...

I've heard good things about the show, but that was my first episode I watched. Are they all this good?

Zombie@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 160d

For the first few seasons, yeah!

When Netflix bought the rights there was a shift to Americanisation of everything and it started to go downhill but there's still some decent episodes from that period as well. But the best episodes are the oldest ones.

lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 160d

Who needs to video their day to torture thenselves with minute details throughout each day, your brain can pull that info up any time it is inconvenient to you and run through it for hours

stoy@lemmy.zip · 58 pts · 160d (3 replies)

How about we ban hidden cameras in public?

ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 160d (1 reply)

That would hit undercover and investigating journalism hard

stoy@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 160d

True, damnit.

Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 9 pts · 160d

Careful with this. Some French journalists (Cash Investigation) got some nice sequences by using hidden cameras, and I guess from the ads that the camera is not hidden, just tiny... I hate tese glasses with guts as they showed in one ad how people can hate it and thought let's fucking send it

Antaeus@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 160d (2 replies)

This can’t possibly be a surprise to people?

Trilogy3452@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 160d

I think some don't think of the ramifications. Some willingly let Google follow them around and save their location

lost_faith@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 160d

Colour ME shocked

Reygle@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 160d

IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 160d

Who watches the watchers?

Meta apparently

THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 160d (1 reply)

I'm shocked!

OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 160d

Hey they're not sposedta do that

TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 160d
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HubertManne@piefed.social · 5 pts · 160d

I bought a pair exclusively for masturbation as the thought of those facebook employees having to watch is so hot.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d

they don't care, and that's the point.

GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 160d

An ant doesn't care that you're watching it until you try to step on it. Why do you think that these bug people would care until it's too late?

LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 160d (4 replies)

What's with the weird comma placement in the, title?

I know its not you, OP

Soup@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 160d (3 replies)

You mean the “, too”? That’s how it’s supposed to be written. People often don’t do it that way, but that’s how it’s correctly used, and few have accused us anglophones, as a whole, of really understanding how to use our own damn language. It’s the same with “, but”, also, and “, also”, also.

LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 160d (1 reply)

I'm also an anglophone, but this seems not quite right to me. There's no real need to insert a comma in that sentence, as there's no real need to pause for clarity or pacing.

Soup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 159d

It’s not about need exactly, it’s about a writing convention. Also, we do have these pauses in our speech/that’s where we would insert those pauses naturally, they’re just often very subtle.

A lot of language, no matter what you speak, has a lot of these subtleties that are so engrained as to be almost unnoticeable. I’m at a pretty high intermediate level French and, because of the closeness with English, I’m actually learning quite a lot about why English is the way it is, too.

SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d
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bassow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 160d

Without the Meta layer (which you can just not install), the basic smart RayBans are actually pretty nice. The audio is pretty good and it works with any other assistant you may have configured. I wish they had a version without the camera.

ravelin@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 160d (1 reply)

sensitive and personal footage captured by the devices—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed

I wanna know... Or maybe I don't... Who is it that sees someone wear these glasses and decides that they wanna f--- them WITH THE GLASSES ON.

Don't get me wrong, I wear (normal) glasses and I like the way I look, but how can THESE glasses be anything but a major turn off?

Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 160d

The ☝️🤓 stays on during sex!

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 1 pts · 160d

“Nah it’s fine, big companies would never do such a thing. Besides they’re beholden to the governments.”

Right.