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Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’::These stylish shades may look like a regular pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, but they're actually Meta's new Smart Glasses, complete with two tiny cameras and speakers implanted in the arms. The wearable tech was unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday at the 2023 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, sparking a frenzy online.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I remember when Google glasses came out, people got assaulted for wearing them

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-woman-says-she-was-attacked-for-wearing-google-glass/

Her Facebook post 💀

“OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some ---- Google Glass haters,” Slocum posted to Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Several bars in my city banned people wearing them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Venues will just need to implement infrared checks at the door.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

A simple solution would be to have a red led that displays when recording like video cameras

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The fix for that is a Sharpie or electrical tape, like all other LED's you want to hide.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The Meta smart glasses have a LED, and they claim to detect when it's covered and asked the user to clear it (not activating the camera) when it's the case.

But honestly, there are already devices to record people without their consent. Just go to AliExpress and you'll find devices that don't even bother adding a LED (because the whole point of the device is stealth filming).

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (38 children)

The trick is now you can’t tell. Should it be illegal? Heck yes. Will it? “Hmm … technology, so important … innovation.. privacy is dead anyway …. terrorism prevention.. “

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Should it be illegal?

In the US, it's been long held people do not have the "expectation of privacy" while out in public. One of the major issues that you've kinda touched on is how would it be enforced? So are you opposed to all forms of recording? Or is this more focused on a corporation potentially gathering data on people just by being in public where someone is wearing these?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (12 children)

IMO expectation of privacy is valid, but I believe people should also have the right to reasonably know if they're being recorded. Recording people in public's one thing if you have your phone out and are waving it around pointing it at people, but it's a whole other thing if it's a concealed or otherwise hidden recording device.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg

Always good to keep in mind

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Alt headline: Dude with boundary issues makes least surprising glasses ever

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (6 children)

A quick search on Amazon for "spy camera" finds a bunch of devices small enough to easily conceal inside clothing, built in to pens, and built in to watches. A search for "spy camera glasses" finds exactly that, and most of them are well under $300. We're already well into the era of being able to film everyone without them knowing.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

They aren’t directly connected to a social network and promoted with vast marketing resources however.

I remember playing with one of these about 10 years ago that looked like a car key fob, it recorded somewhat subpar footage in a weird format to a microSD card. A neat novelty but not very practical to use unless you really had a need to do covert surveillance of something, which most people don’t.

However if it’s made to be effortless to push watchable footage to social media, and people are heavily encouraged and incentivised to do so and it’s a different proposition.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I think it is just a matter of convenience. Very few people buy lasers to aim them at airplanes. Give everyone a laser and you'll get a thousand reports of people aiming lasers at their plane.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Hidden cameras? They've got big ol fuckin cameras on them and apparently a red LED that lights up when in use lol. It'd be easier to secretly film someone by pretending you're texting on your phone. More ragebait.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You seriously think it wouldn't be trivial to disable the LED?

And by the time you notice the LED you've already been filmed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It would be trivial to just buy spy cameras already built for spying. The tech already exists

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Buddy, have you been on Aliexpress recently? It's trivial to wire tiny cameras all over your body if you really wanted.

Not that it matters, I can point an 8K cinema camera at you in public, and you don't legally get a say.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss when CCTV was a world ending privacy concern. Its gotten so much worse in the last decade.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Incredibly funny to see the NY Post pretend that these glasses were just now "unveiled". This line of camera-equipped glasses has been around for 2 years now.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You're being filmed everywhere you go and you probably don't even know it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Doesn't make it ok.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not a thing was learned from Google Glass huh? Alrighty then.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I almost like the idea of augmented reality with similar tech. I'd love it if I could look down the street and see historic photos of building overlaid perfectly.

The issue isn't the technology, it's the people who are supplying it and it's connection to the Internet and sharing. I don't trust Google and I don't trust Meta.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just saying, hidden cameras have been a thing long before the internet was invented

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Bad people doing bad things is nothing new.

But these things allow good, otherwise well-intentioned, people, to become unwitting moles for Meta.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This is an excellent point +1

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The NY Post? Why not link to The Crackpot Gazette while you're at it?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't imagine being friends or even acquaintances with a person who would want to live stream their POV as a day to day activity.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

NYPost is right wing trash.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

NYPost.

come on now

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’ Implying that we dont already have cameras always with us, and can perfectly do that.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

My cyberpunk future of me using a full head mask every time I'm out in public is getting closer.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Black mirror vibes

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Downvote all news corpse articles

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So this is just an ad, huh.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So will they just not work in 2 party consent states?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Clearly the smart glasses wearer will just wear a shirt that outlines their TOS and that by interacting with them, you agree to be recorded.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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