Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

https://github.com/BasedHardware/omi

Originating from:

https://github.com/BasedHardware/openglass

It should have to light up when recording. Like, at a hardware level.

Surveillance at critical points like arrests seems important in order to have basic accountability. Surveillance all the time if you know it or not is more of a slippery slope.

Now I envision cops just straight up jacking people's Rx glasses under suspicion of being recorded, like they do with phones already.

I agree with your premise, but only if it's stored locally and not sent to a corporation, who is likely going to share videos that help to convict other people of crimes but not allow access to video that shows cops doing something wrong.

But also, there should be a legal requirement to have a light visible when recording. If you're found violating this, it should at least be a sizable criminal offense.

Nah. My wife is legally blind without her prosthetics. She's rather stay blind than use these.

If they could make these glasses more privacy invading by making them useless for the visually impaired, they would.

You don't need glasses for that, you could simply use an on-hand camera, maybe a special phone for those with vision problems

Like an automated version of the Be My Eyes app.

you're visually impaired and, say, clothes shopping. You can ask the glasses "hey, do these items match?"

those are some fucking priorities. a little fashion over human rights

You described me, and I still find those glasses creepy. It’s so much cheaper, easier, and less ethically fraught to just say “oh hey man how are you doing!” and fake it for a minute. Or tell them you’re having a brain fart and keep wanting to call them [random name] even though you KNOW that’s not it. Or, god forbid, just be upfront with people and tell them you’re face blind AF and struggle with placing faces to people outside context.

So one should just sacrifice everyone elses safety and privacy because you're bad a recognizing faces? I get that it can be helpful, but you are literally uploading strangers faces and likeness to Meta's servers without their consent. It's creepy and predatory.

Oh yeah, that's a good reason to aid the expansion of global surveillance. Let's all be complicit with the police state because we can't acknowledge our social anxieties with a bit of honesty.

I don't think violating peoples' privacy and paying big tech to extend their mass surveillance network so you can avoid looking awkward to them for a second carries the weight you seem to think it does

As someone like that, the key is to be affable, apologize, and ask how you know each other. It's not a big deal, most people aren't offended

that's a perfect argument for trying to justify total and complete invasion of privacy on the streets

Man, some of ya really need to learn how to socialize

Yep!

And as cameras get smaller, pretty soon any glasses will be suspect, meaning that those that need vision correction without being able to wear contacts for whatever reason will also end up lumped in with the creeps.

This is like Batesian mimickry but stupid.

This sounds like a bigger underlying problem that can be addressed with a long term solution that does not leave you reliant on a second fragile, expensive battery-powered device with planned obsolescence and social stigma as likely risks.

are the prices from Capable a joke? who thefuck pays $6-700 for a pair of joggers or sweater. privacy wear should be affordable, not a luxury. it’s the wealthy class that’s making this a problem in the first place

Has Zenni gotten rid of the polarized lenses? I checked a few sunglasses and couldn't configure them with polarized lenses....

I had no idea there were so many methods

How does this "anti-papparazi" thing work?

Yeah.

At the same time, I think people don’t really understand how toxic Facebook is. It’s a physical health hazard for one relative of mine, a mental one for some others. I’m not exaggerating when I say it would be better for their health if they drank and smoked cigarettes.

It's not an android so I don't think so.