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Instagram Is Still Drowned in Creepy Smart Glasses Content
https://gizmodo.com/instagram-is-still-drowned-in-creepy-smart-glasses-content-2000799347
26 Comments
jtrek@startrek.website · 29 pts · 18d
Stop using Instagram. It's a platform run by assholes and monsters.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 17d
Done, I stopped 8 years ago when my son was born and I didn’t want his photos in there.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 18d
I was at Best Buy recently, first time in many years. I got to see a pair in person for the first time. The things feel cheap af. Like cheap plastic sunglasses for kids. I was a little surprised.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 18d
The only correct response is shouting “PERVERT” in their face until they leave
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 18d
I think they were being displayed, not worn.
Sidhean@piefed.social · 14 pts · 18d
You gotta call the display a "PERVERT"! Bully it out of the store! :3
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 18d
Yes, they were on display. I should have clarified that I did not snatch a pair of pervert glasses off a glasshole's face and examine them.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 18d
I like it, or maybe “traitor.” If every person that passed me hissed “traitor” or “pervert” I probably wouldn’t want to wear conspicuous markers of my partnership with the surveillance state.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 18d
Some 1a auditors are wearing them precisely to get that reaction, easy content.
MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 11 pts · 18d
Instagram Is Still Drowned in Creepy Pervert Glasses Content
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 8 pts · 18d
Are they only in the US? Don't think I've ever seen them in Europe
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 18d
England and Wales Courts Ban Meta Smart Glasses Over Recording Risks
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-meta-smart-glasses-ban-england-wales-courts/
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
Germany too! https://m.slashdot.org/story/456972
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 1 pts · 17d
Wow impressive. I thought the UK enjoyed surveiling their citizens, but maybe because Meta is a foreign entity they can't just bludgeon into getting data from, it has to be banned.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 17d
It's only in courts, where photography has been banned for a long time.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
Germany too. https://m.slashdot.org/story/456972
eremophila@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 18d
There was a recent story about a large retailer (Kmart) in Australia selling out of a cheaper brand (Anko) of pervert glasses
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 1 pts · 17d
I should've known that by now your company doesn't have to be huge to slap a camera and battery onto glasses.
eremophila@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 17d
they will be in mcdonalds sappy meals soon enough
DdCno1@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 17d
They are available in Europe. There was an attempt to ban these in Germany, but it was determined that the recording LED was enough to not make this an illegal secret recording device.
Privacy and right to your own image laws still apply here. You can not legally upload secretly filmed content here, including from public places.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 18d
We should carry lasers and point them at the lenses we see in public. Maybe when these assholes go blind they'll stop assisting the surveillance state.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 17d
It's mind boggling how many people - even here on lemmy - that simp for this garbage, insisting it's no different than a phone recording (dumbest fucking argument ever) and that we're always being surveilled anyway.
Yeah, we fucking get it, creep, you don't care about your privacy. WE FUCKING GET IT. Fuck right off with your shitty fucking take.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
No shit. Meta? Meta, the company that wanted to design their AI to sex chat little kids to keep them hooked on the platform? The company thats been in the news for knowingly doing awful thing after awful thing? The one that makes these fucking glasses to begin with?
They're not being the best? You don't say.
boaratio@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
The genocide enabling company? Color me shocked.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 17d
They heard of the orphan grinding machine and asked themselves "Why only orphans?"
boaratio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 17d
Hah, this actually made me lol. Well done.