Submitted 1 day ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://gizmodo.com/meta-smart-glasses-can-now-track-all-the-food-you-put-into-your-mouth-2000742036
Whether people want to give Meta all their food data is another question entirely.
that’ll be a fun conversation with the insurance company (who knows you’re diabetic) when they buy everyone’s footage from meta and they see you stuffing your face with triple chocolate lava murder cheesecake
There’s a change.org out there somewhere to ban these from public use. Many States at least have laws in place you can’t record audio/video without proper “all party” consent. I’m sure Meta will buy those politicians and get that changed eventually, but for now it’s law.
Many States at least have laws in place you can’t record audio/video without proper “all party” consent.
As much as I dislike these things, that isn’t true. You have no privacy in public spaces. It’s why paparazzi exist.
There are laws for recording confidential communications,private conversations, or inside private residences but otherwise anyone can record outside perfectly well.
I hate these fucking glasses so much.
Sorry, what’s the benefit with them compared to normal glasses for the sight impaired?
“Sight impaired” as in “blind”, or close to it. That is, vision problems that can’t be corrected with lenses. A camera that can describe what your face is pointed at would be a game changer such people.
I can guarantee you this will be very hit or miss, unless you’re telling it what you’re eating. Even then the nutrional data will be garbage due to the huge variety in ways to prepare food.
regardless… that’s fucked up that’s a target
And totally not enabling Meta to make a huge consumer profile database that’s totally not getting sold to the highest bidders I’m sure.
We don’t allow them where I work at a Driving Test Centre in UK. Which is awkward, as you can now have these glasses with prescription lenses. Candidates can either test without them, or don’t test and lose your test fee. We’ve had a couple of people refused a test and they weren’t happy. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
It’s like they are training a baby on what reality is by feeding it all the observable data they can get their hands on.
how do we fight those devices
Get one of those really powerful magnets for magnet fishing, and then wallop them in the head with it.
Even with the privacy issue aside, the glasses are a shitty product. What they do, they do poorly.
Ignoring the fact that this has to be incredibly inaccurate. How do they do all this processing on small glasses? Even sending video to the phone to be uploaded to meta and processed there would be pretty expensive for a small device like this.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I saw some fuckwit wearing Meta glasses at a show I went to a couple months ago, and I had to calm myself down and control the impulse to rip them off of the girl’s face and snap them in half. Seriously, anyone who buys or uses those fucking things is an abject idiot. Nobody is interested in being constantly surveilled, and that’s what you’re enabling if you use “smart glasses” sold by Meta.