Meta’s AI glasses have all sorts of alleged use cases. The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent. And Meta knows for a fact this is t…
  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Oh, boy, Rapist Glasses

    There’s a UK Parliament petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses”. If you’re in the UK, you might want to sign it. [UK Parliament]

    Given Parliament’s track record, they’ll probably respond by banning glasses that don’t have cameras, but I still endorse this

    • Strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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      11 hours ago

      @BlueMonday1984
      > petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses"

      This seems like kind of a knee jerk response. How are “smart” glasses defined? Could such a ban also limit privacy-respecting digital facewear? When covering protests for Indymedia, I would have loved a wearable camera.

      If the only thing that makes these different from carrying a “smart” phone is the always-on camera, maybe it would be better to propose regulation specific to that?

      @dgerard

      • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        Isn’t UK’s usually problem the other way around, they use "Protecting the Children"tm as an excuse to ban sensible things or take away privacy from adults? This would be a first, taking away something from Children to protect the adults.

  • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    3 days ago

    Zuckerfuck is absolute cancer, but the even sadder part is how many losers buy this shit. Shame.

  • Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish
    38·
    2 days ago

    Zuckerberg is creepy so this follows. We are talking about a guy who would walk around his startup office with a samurai sword pretending to chop his employees with it. And a guy who deliberately got Julius Caesar’s haircut. And a guy whose original version of Facebook was a platform on which college students could rate the attractiveness of female college students.

    • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      The Social Network gives great insight into just how terrible and awkward he really is. Plus Jesse Eisenberg knocks it out of the park.

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    I don’t condone violence but,…

    Actually, no, I do condone violence against these pricks. Zuck, Bezos, Musk & Co. deserve to be hung by an angry mob.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    3 days ago

    Zusk will later introduce an “off” feature for 10 bucks a month.

    (it will still record everything surreptitiously)

  • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
    16·
    3 days ago

    Ugh, this company is totally fucking creepy! If only there were a way to disrupt these glasses using readily available electronics…

    • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      There’s an Android app that will constantly scan for their Bluetooth signature in the background and alert you.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I just bought new glasses and got an IR-blocking lens coating that’s supposed to thwart facial recognition from things like these and Flock cameras and whatnot. It’s not active disruption via electronics, but it is a countermeasure…

      • stopdropandprole@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        I thought IR only applies to night vision or low light modes, which not all cameras even use.

        most surveillance cameras, including the ones being discussed in Meta glasses, just use regular optical sensors for well illuminated environments.

        wouldn’t IR blocking be completely useless when theres no Infrared LEDs projecting at you?

      • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
        4·
        2 days ago

        Countermeasures are good, despite them not being active…It’s important to disrupt these terrible techs whenever possible!