An Indian Trans Person’s Harrowing Encounter Fuels Backlash Against Meta AI ‘Pervert Glasses’

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• SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why the fuck are these things legal??? How can one consent to a recording that is already taking place? I’m struggling to find a use case where glasses with cameras on them are useful.

  Absolutely insane. These things should be banned. The temptation and ability for abuse far outweighs any benefit they may claim to provide.

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  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why is any of the surveillance that already exist everywhere around you, legal?

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That one’s easy: the State decides what’s legal, and the State likes spying on it’s people

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People are recording everything all the time with their phones anyway. That said, yeah, fuck these pervert glasses. I can see legit AR use cases like:

    • going on vacation and having AR glasses highlight cultural/historical sites and give details
    • vocational, fixing shit and having the glasses highlight what needs to be loosened/tightened/whatever next
    • I always thought it would be cool to have like a FPS that let’s you play around your house with shit jumping out of rooms or closets or whatever

    I’m sure there are more, but those are benevolent uses I can think of. As far as just walking around recording people, fuck that.

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    • NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you require LLM powered glasses to show you what to do next in a maintenance job you should not have a maintenance job. That’s what training and officially accredited qualifications are for.

      This is without even going into the finer details of fault finding, diagnosis, risk assessment, personal safety (pervert glasses are not impact rated and pose a significant hazard in hazardous atmosphere environments, let alone the distraction of having a clanker chatting in your ear and flashing popups directly in your line of sight.)

      If you want to know about the historical significance of an area while you are on holiday, then read about the area you are going to before you go, or buy a travel guide and support a historian or a writer that has spent their life researching the topic.

      These glasses pose no purpose than harvesting data and recording people without their consent for the sake of the techbro panopticon.

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• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No expectation of privacy in public I’m afraid :( not legally anyway.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Privacy, no, but many states have laws in place to prevent voyeurism - app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9A.44.115 for example.

    Meta is already facing backlash for people using these things to harass workers and women, too.

    businessinsider.com/instagram-meta-glasses-bannin…

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    • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s actually so good to hear, as a mom

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe not in the US, but that’s not true on the rest of the planet.

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    • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair enough I need to realize this place isn’t as American as Reddit.

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Y’all know phones have cameras, right?

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  • Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you implying that people shouldn’t be upset about the pervert glasses cameras because phones have cameras?

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Calling them that because of the camera is undercut by everyone already carrying a camera, and routinely having them pointed toward you by holding the device.

      The problem is the part where it uploads shit to corporate spy agencies, not the hardware being a tiny phone on your face. The hardware is not meaningfully different from the tiny phone… in your hand.

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  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And cars have cameras and flock has cameras and ring has cameras and TVs and monitors and microphones everywhere. Its insane ppls are bitching so much about these glasses when they let Google home listen to everything inside their home. Almost like it’s being fueled by competitors, rather than actual ppl.

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    • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I doubt it would be someone who also bought a pervert car and a pervert tv and a pervert doorbell and bugged their own home that would then bring up this problem with the pervert glasses.

      What kind of competitor are you talking about?

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      and flock has cameras

      USA issue

      and ring has cameras

      Luckly i never saw one where i live but anyway, i remember that there was a huge backlash against them some time ago

      TVs and monitors

      What sort of TVs you buy?

      insane ppls are bitching so much about these glasses when they let Google home listen to everything inside their home.

      Jokes on you, i don’t have one and i removed Google Assistant from my devices lol, i also don’t see why it’s a problem to bitch about yet another camera around our streets

      Are you a Meta employee or sum?

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