Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned'

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Exactly. There is zero way for those glasses to remain HIPAA-compliant, because everything you do is uploaded to Meta’s servers.

and it also trains thier shitty AI.

Seriously. How many patients did this guy record before someone noticed? He needs to be killed. Sloppers can't communicate anymore-they just ask grok what that meant and Claude how to win the argument. Language now skips the human and is entirely mediated by corporate machines. the only thing left is violence.

Without evidence, the idea that there's a hidden camera in the exam room is just paranoid speculation. By contrast, this was an actual visible camera in the exam room, and a camera that was obviously the doctor's own personal device. It makes sense to worry more about the camera you know is real.

That's because there is generally implicit trust that there is no hidden cameras. The open display of a camera effectively destroys that trust. If everyone was always suspicious of there being hidden cameras everywhere, functioning in society would be pretty difficult.

Having a hidden camera in a room would be illegal. The chance of a hidden camera existing is near 0%. Just to survive, people have to be able to trust in something rather than question every single aspect, and trusting that your medical office isn't illegally wired to record you secretly is a safe bet. However, when a dumbass walks in with their personal gear that is designed to record and save that recording into a cloud is not even remotely acceptable, especially when that cloud is Meta.

Comparing the two like the hidden camera is a common thing is some major tinfoil hat shit.

a camera openly displayed, but off,

I know enough about technology and big tech companies to be completely unwilling to believe that any device claiming to be "off" or even just to have some feature "off" can be trusted not to be collecting data anyway, at least in certain situations. They have completely and utterly destroyed that trust, and are at this very moment still dancing gleefully on its corpse. It doesn't really make any sense for them to act surprised when we refuse to believe a company like Meta will take anyone's privacy seriously.

It's neither funny nor interesting. Hope that helps

but off,

there's an entire creepy industry to disable the lights.

https://stealthspecs.com/product/send-in-modification-service-disable-led-on-meta-glasses/

https://www.reddit.com/r/RayBanStories/comments/s9bb2i/blocking_led_light_when_recording/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awCU4RtorMY

https://cybernews.com/ai-news/meta-ai-glasses-record-without-warning-light/

It's because doctors offices are generally audited by law. If someone does find a hidden camera, that doctors office rightfully will be sued and shut down.

Even if they were not recording from his perspective you have no idea what the stupid things are doing. You don't really control them, Meta does.

Most pager systems are actually huge privacy violations. $20 for a software defined radio dongle and a few minutes will give you plaintext pager notifications for hospitals across your state.

Did a project on it when I was breaking into cybersecurity.

There are encrypted paging setups, but there’s a lot of places still running legacy.

Are there alternatives outside of paging. I know the risk of texting sensitive information, but I figured there'd be a more modern system than paging.

If this was in 1992 ok, valid point. Anyone currently forcing doctors to use pagers when secure alternatives that allow for better communication exist deserves pushback.

wouldn’t stop using SMS instead of their pagers. Every time their excuse was “I don’t like the pager, it’s old.

Wouldn't stop using SMS instead of their pagers for what? My office still has pagers, but that's mainly because we're in the hospital's basement and don't have very good reception.

The rest of the hospital generally works off of sms for messaging when a patient is roomed, or for being on call. I don't know how you could break hipaa using a sms in place of a pager.

Does the NHS not have better patient protections in place than the US’s shitty system?

Sorry, but I had to record you naked because of our litigious society.

So his solution to getting sued is that he creates another reason to be sued? Wearing a potentially always on, personally controlled recording device, that has been reported to send the footage to overseas workers to categorize it without user knowledge, in a HIPAA setting is just asking for another lawsuit.

"I installed secret cameras in the women's changing rooms to catch shoplifters! Why are you arresting me?"

Source: ass

so dumb he keeps breaking the law? by breaking new laws?

what a fascinatingly stupid concept

They need to ask consent for this kind of shit. At least HIPAA is real fucking clear about this shit.

Probably an idiot, possibly a pervert.

Sadly a number of EHRs integrate with perv glasses.

The only time a doctor has recorded me, they asked for consent first and then the recording went into a HIPAA compliant EMR system. This doctor has done neither.

What's the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn't think he's a doctor.

First amendment only protects you from being persecuted by the government. Being ostracized, shamed and unfortunately attacked in the middle of the night by anonomous people isn't against the first amendment.

Bullshit, voyeurism is a felony in most states. Invading someone's privacy isn't covered by the first fucking amendment you dolt.

What!? lol.

Or: Because the overton window got moved far enough and privacy now is a privilege of wealth.

My right to privacy in a fucking doctor’s office is not an insecurity you ass

Check that man’s hhd for sure

I know this is nitpicky and I'm sorry but... "hdd" not "hhd". But probably in 2026 its an ssd anyway.

ianal but that alone is probably a serious breach of hipaa for which the doctor should be slammed

edit: i just realised that article is not from the u. s. and a.

Yeah, you'd think that all recordings would have to be local...and not on the cloud.

I could use them to document, diy content creators would get some great close up work details ...hell even the OG google glasses are in wide use in warehouse logistics for their huds. There are use applications. But they're not advertising for that. They're advertising for abuse. And they're getting that demographic

Lemmy unfortunately does have a chronic sexism problem.

You do know these glasses have a little light that turns on when filming right?

The issue is that techs have been drilling these lights and "turning them off" for these perverts and that should be made into a severe FELONY.

Also if you are found with these glasses and the light is drilled out then you should face the same jail time.

Strong disagree. Smart glasses will be one of the biggest tech advances in the next decade or 2 for the normal person, and I’m here for it. The awesome things that they will unlock the ability to do are almost unlimited.

There are a million cheap, easy to get and conceal cameras that perverts have access to. There are already laws around where and when and what you can record. Smart glasses don’t make anything any easier for perverts.

All that’s needed is a standard to be developed on how to physically cover the camera by default, and make it extremely obvious when the camera is not covered, even if it’s not recording. Shouldn’t be hard technically.

well iif youre out in the miiddle of the Sahara desert or the alaskan desert...

(But yes in public with otherr humans , you should be forced to obtain consent first before you usee such thing)

That is one of the legitimate uses. Unfortunately it's marred by the AI companies' complete lack of trustworthiness when it comes to data privacy and security. You can't know for certain they aren't just wrapping your personal medical notes into their ever growing store of training data.

That's like the least offensive use of AI as well. I'm perfectly fine with voice transcription that's hardly even an AI

As always, we'll get downvoted by the "Free the nipple! ... No we didn't actually mean it!" crowd.

Somehow people sharing your point of view in my experience are mostly men and mostly imagine it as lots of handsome young-looking people walking around in half-transparent elastic body suits in some future where everyone is "fixed" to be fit and look nice. And in that kind of sci-fi books somehow women are prevalent among characters, but the leading ones are men.

You get the general idea, yes?

I'm a very social awkward person, but honestly that worldview hints you should get out more. Again, I should follow my own advice, but.

that's what a perv would say

So you just throw privacy out the window with the baby?

Are you american?

Do you know what the fourth amendment is, of course not?

Walk outside completely naked right now then if its not such a big deal. Let's see you put your money where your mouth is.

a little LED that lights up when the camera is on,

Which can be easily covered and no, i don't believe FB's claim that this disables the camera.

Search turning off the light meta glasses and find why people should be arrested for these glasses.

Ive only seen a few videos where the tech refused to turn off the light.

Does he, though? The modeling session would have been before they were released and they don't exactly tell their models the full technical details of the stuff they make them wear.

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It's my employers rule so if they fucked up that's on them.

Does the urge to get the star wars quote in there override actually reading what I wrote?

In Japan, you can't disable the shutter sound on phone cameras, because weirdos were sticking them up women's skirts and silently taking pictures.

We didn't do that here in America, because perversity is a human right in MAGA America.

Or, and hear me out, ban these glasses with the exception of some very specific use cases, like for blind people where I see a legit use case.

the two of you did not say exclusive things

Honestly I see only one use for smart glasses with a camera and AI and that is to help blind people know what is in front of them.

I don’t think it is an overstatement. It could mean full AR the world over. In every shop you could look at something and have a pop up with its price, allergy information, materials, place of manufacturing.

At every sporting event you could have your own personal replays and multiple camera angles.

While cooking you could have instructions showing you exactly where to cut, how long to pour, when and how to stir, timers for multiple bits of your cooking, see the temperature of something by looking at it.

While repairing a car engine you could have every part being labelled for you, with detailed instructions on every single step of everything from changing the oil to rebuilding an engine.

While driving you could see the speed of other cars, be alerted to potential hazards, see directions from your point of view.

The limit really is the sky for AR, which is what the end goal is for smart glasses. That’s the unfathomable usefulness of the technology.

old school 80's/90's sci-fi humor. They'd often use some superpower or new tech with "x-ray vision" that can conveniently see through clothes but not skin...

I imagine the rest can be left to your imagination on how that humor was utilized.

where do you see "x-ray vision" comments?

That's not nuance, that's making excuses for pervert glasses. You are both perverts.

I feel like thats because technology is at odds with ethics in the majority of popular fields of tech and corporations care about money, not ethics. I'm definitely not a luddite, but I understand the hate when technology is used to opress instead of bettering human lives

We're not anti technology, were vocally anti destructive and anti privacy technology. AI is terrible in almost every facet. It's a neat technology on paper, but the environmental and societal impact far outweighs any positives from it. Camera glasses that record people that don't want to be recorded and saved to a cloud where that information is trained on and out of the control of anyone that's been recorded is a major privacy violation. Again, the technology of having smart glasses is neat on paper, but it reality is awful and prime for abuse.

So we don't hate all technology, just the shit technologies, like those mentioned plus flock and Microsoft products to add to the pile. Not being critical of these technologies is insane to me, because it lets these companies push the limit of what's acceptable without reprecussions.

I don't hate tech. But we are definitely in time of techno robber barons who have long drained any benefit of the doubt. Meta especially deserves no grace.

There's a clear disctinction these days bewteen "Tech" and "Big Tech™️". This is firmly in the latter.

The topic of the community is "technology". It's not called "pro-technology". Negative commentary on technology is included in "technology" as a topic.

Reddit subversives can go back to reddit we don't care

You'll find that there are tech enthusiasts and tech consumers. Tech enthusiasts are usually fans of FLOSS and want technology accessible for all; basically they want tech to work for them. Tech consumers are usually fans of what's new on the tech market and become the product.

I'm part of the former. These glasses are awful in every way possible, so much so that the alleged benefits are minuscule in comparison to privacy breaches, misuse of data by a private company, training of AI models on that stolen data, parasitic and enforces a reliance on being online.

I'd much rather trust independent research than a private profit driven tech company to develop anything to assist disabilities. There's already tech being developed that potentially restores some sight to the blind.

These glasses have got to go.

There's hating technology in general and then there's hating the US West Coast tech scene specifically in my opinion.

"I made a technology that turns crushed orphans into profit"

You - oh wow any new technology is progress!!1