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Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.
And rightfully so.
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Well, yeah. You wouldn’t allow someone to film at a swimming pool with their phone. Stealth cameras of any form are immediately far more suspicious.
Reframing
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So the same thing smartphones are? It’s easy to run install and run spy apps on them that record everything.
Everybody is getting so anxious about new technology these days. Smart glasses are pervert glasses, AI is completely bad and cannot have any possible good use, etc. Maybe the problem isn’t with the technology, but with the companies and the corruption world wide.
It’d be easy with regulations to have LEDs to go along with recording functions to notify other users when they are, but it seems these technologies are being allowed to run rampant spying under the scummiest of companies who do want to record and obtain your private information. Nobody is putting up even the most basic roadblocks or bothering to be transparent about their software.
That’s a lot of words to out yourself as a pervert…
google was the first to make pervert glasses, did people not learn from this.
The companies learned that they needed to let the concept wait a few years before being reintroduced
Aren’t the glassholes extinct by now?
Down with camera glasses!
Now back to regularly scheduled perv camera phone existence.
I remember a long time ago I did buy camera glasses in 2016 and they were 720p (allegedly) but were 100% disconnected and you needed a cable to get your stuff out of there.
Why did I get them? Because they were a good way of being a tourist and recording things from your POV without a camera. Also I bought many for a spy themed evented I was attending.
These are just terrifying.
Creeper peepers
Oh - I love this angle!!!
Spread the word bros! I’ll only call them pervert glasses from now on
I’ve never met a pervert that didn’t embrace that name.
Surveillance glasses.
(If “pervert” is too much in a discussion)
Exactly
Because that’s what they are?
Not true! You could be a freelance CIA agent/pizza delivery man and world’s greatest swordsman (despite having never been in a real fight)
Yeah, and won’t someone think about those poor contractors over at Meta? How else are they going to meet their AI circlejerk quota and rank all of that increasingly disturbing novel content if they can’t watch it through their glasses on their train rides to and from the office? Let’s have some compassion here folks!
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Ugh, just typing that made me nauseous
Anyone wearing those are absolutely being a perv and playing dumb about it. Apple will probably come out with those next, and push them just like they have air pods so that they’ll have a camera to go with their always active mics! Fucking drives me nuts when people act like they’re so technologically savvy by using siri to call people on the phone.
I’ve had to inform all my boomer/genx peeps that have one about how they send video footage back even when you aren’t recording.
Examples like people just putting the glasses down on their bedside table and some meta contractor ends up seeing your wife get dressed after a shower.
My beef, what about underage users?? Let’s say a high schooler gets frisky with his gf?? A kid at my kid’s school was bragging about using his glasses for school work, and they were joking about taking a poop, etc then a kid joked about walking into the girls bathroom with them on… Idk man, so many problems with them!!
Don’t forget…Facefuck was found by a massive letch/perv.
I hate how these are being used, both by Meta and by creeps.
I bought a pair of them after trying out a friends (back before they had any AI capability, and had not yet been hacked to dox people) because they’re really good speakers and the exact same style of sunglasses that I’ve worn for 30 years. The first thing I did was disable the always on mic (which required me to log in to meta, which I had to make an account for using a burner email). The second thing I did was purchase lens covers so people could be confident I wasn’t recording them. Finding covers that worked for the lens and not just the light was a pain because I apparently everyone is doing the opposite thing with these that I wanted to. Also, I wanted to make sure that the lens cover could be removed because I wanted to be able to retain the ability to make hands free first person videos (in places without other people). It’s also super helpful for making footage of things that require you to use both hands.
I hope any future smart glasses (because there’s no way this product is going to go away) don’t just indicate when they are recording, but they make it obvious to others when they’re in a state that they cannot be recording (video at least). A built in lens cover solves that. If I was to buy another pair of smart glasses (which I currently have no plans to do), it would be an absolute requirement that people around me understand that I’m not making video of them, doxxing them, or in any way using an image of them.
There are a ton of great applications for this and other cameras. If you’re a woman walking around by herself it could help prove that an assault took place, for example. The problem is that the people buying these things are the freaks, not the innocents.
“Invading people’s privacy by recording them without their knowledge or consent is only wrong when a man does it.”
Nobody has a right to not be recorded in public spaces. Whether that’s a good thing or not I’ll leave to you, but nobody in public should ever assume they have any kind of privacy while in public.
Okay, so you’re pro-smartglasses and forfeit your right to complain about men being “creeps” in public. “Nobody has a right to not be recording in public spaces” “Nobody in public should ever assume they have any kind of privacy while in public.” Your words, not mine. Now let’s see you squirm to try to explain why actually that’s not the case whenever it’s convenient for you to contradict yourself.
You can’t read, can you?
Apparently you can’t
So obviously beside the point…can you not turn this into Reddit please? I don’t own meta glasses or film anyone in public without them being aware. The only situation in which I would, which I’ve already said I don’t, is if I’m alone and concerned for my safety.
And yeah men are more likely to use them for perverted reasons.So are we gonna normalize them and say they’re okay, or are we gonna say they’re an invasion of everyone’s privacy and shouldn’t be acceptable?
Because you can’t have it both ways unless you want to call yourself a hypocrite. This isn’t reddit, but that doesn’t mean you can flaunt your logical inconsistencies and expect no one to call you out on it.
By the way, I’m firmly in the camp of “these are an invasion of everyone’s privacy,” but if you wanna argue “well actually they have some uses” then I don’t want to hear you crying later when someone uses it to invade your privacy. Don’t be so short-sighted.
It’s not beside the point at all.
Fucking drives me nuts when people act like they’re so technologically savvy by using siri to call people on the phone.
Years ago, I worked with this guy who would purposely leave his office and pace the halls only to stop in my doorway to say, “hey siri, call _____” with a huge fucking smirk on his face!
He was so annoying.
eye pods
What the fuck do AirPods have to do with this? Any wireless earbuds are awesome. I can start playing a video on my phone, and it connects. I take a call on my laptop, and it jumps there immediately. I don’t have to fiddle with a cord that constantly gets tangled and then eventually just stops working because it’s been bent in the same spot for 2 years. I can connect my AirPods and my wife’s AirPods to my phone on a plane, and we watch a video together, and I didn’t have to remember to bring my headphone splitter. Wireless earbuds are not the same as a mass surveillance device.
Dude, you to offense like nobody’s business… I’m not dissing on wireless ear buds, I’m specifically calling out Apple brand for the “always active mic” which is a privacy concern in itself. And 2. Its the popularization of trying to make it a normalized thing that everybody wears. It wasn’t socially acceptable to otherwise wear them around all the time, but now it’s seen as a “status symbol” so now is OK to do…
Go ahead and keep spending exorbitant money on Apple products, they’ve clearly wrangled you into their ecosystem and I somehow hit a nerve lmao. I get the point to their functionality, too, you don’t have to explain magical wireless technology to me, it sounds like you’re trying to justify something to yourself.
The pair/brand I own don’t have an always-on mic, they don’t send data to the Mothership, and they probably sound a whole HELL of a lot better than yours trash apple product 😂
Cracks me up though, you’re spending $600+ on 2 SETS of airpods for a (2-4hour?) flight vs a <$10 headphone splitter… Who you convincing they’re great, yourself??
ANYWAY back to my point, I can see Apple trying to release their own version of these glasses and trying to normalize them, and poor fucking saps like you will gobble it up and continue trying to justify it all the same… I bet you have a pair of their $3500 augmented reality headset too…
Calling me offensive because I used “fuck”? It’s called poe’s law. Don’t assume people are mad just because of words. I was just trying to figure out what the heck you meant with AirPods. The always on is for the transparency mode. It’s all on device and not even sent to the phone. AirPods are t even that expensive and we use them for more than just a flight. We have jobs where we listen to music and work with our hands so we don’t get stuck in our cords.
But you’re the one being very extra and aggressive now, even going into name calling, which I never did. Take a step back. This is Lemmy, not Reddit or Xitter. Take a chill pill and engage in the conversation instead of spewing vitriol.
Also, why would I have the AR headset? There’s no use for it. You can’t even play games! 😂
It read angry and defensive. You made a lot of cases for why they’re “so great” like you had to convince more than me. Anyway, I know how they work, I’m a pretty big tech nerd myself, but at no point would I ever use their tech. This is a privacy group, so you can’t defend a company that’s known for spying on their customers. Apple might push themselves as privacy-focused, but maybe they just keep other “bad actors” from your data while they happily gather as much as they want and
sharesell to 3rd party partners.I’m going to need a source on Apple selling your data. Just one source is fine. They do push themselves as security focused, and they are very overpriced for what you’re getting. But I haven’t seen any news or sources of them actually breaking any of their privacy promises. They did give anonymized audio data to a third party contractor to quality grade their “hey siri” detection but this is something the user has to opt into. They have a better track record than Google, and back in 2009 when I was getting into smart phones, those were the only two options.
Totally understandable, and yes, Apple does have a better track record with consumer/customer data. They’ve pushed really hard to hang on directly to user data since they have their own ad platform now. They gather the same types of data that Google does, and Google goes to extra lengths to get even more. I get that.
I think it’s the verbiage I don’t trust in some of their privacy policy:
"## Apple’s Sharing of Personal Data
Apple may share personal data with Apple-affiliated companies, service providers who act on our behalf, our partners, developers, and publishers, or others at your direction. Further, Apple does not share personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes."
So data IS shared, but not allowed to be used for marketing purposes, so it sounds great at face value, but they leave out what’s allowed… Again Apple has their own ad platform.
Cookies and Other Technologies
Apple’s websites, online services, interactive applications, and advertisements may use “cookies” and other technologies such as web beacons.
While they allow you to disable cookies, there’s still other tech at work… It later says:
In addition to cookies, Apple uses other technologies that help us achieve similar objectives.
I just don’t fully trust it. Apple has A VERY large legal team and they certainly have better wording to sound super great!! They do offer better privacy out of the box and settings to lock down or opt out, yes, 100%. But they do admit several times data is shared, be it personal or non-personal (anonymized).
They also allow Google to still remain the default search engine (for $12b) which then for millions of people all that data is gathered… And you KNOW Apple gets a slice of that data… So while Apple appears to take the high road on this one, I think they’re far from innocent. They’re allowing other companies to do the legwork for your data while maintaining its “pure” view. inserts Clever_girl.gif
Anyway, sources: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
https://fossbytes.com/apple-data-collection-explained/
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-privacy-data-collection/
The gist: data is gathered, data is shared, days is allowed to be stored with 3rd parties “until they’re done with it” just don’t use it for marketing, that’s our space, etc… They’ve come a long way, but far from innocent!
Nah, live honestly and get over the surveillance state. Glasses are a good thing. Why? U need to protect.yourself from the snakes of this world …and these help.
We live in an outrage environment where everyone wants to be offended and/or do character assassination. They are almost needed to protect yourself nowadays.
Sounds like a skill issue have you tried not being a prick. Cause damned near everytime I hear the shit you’re spouting it turns out that the issue is a cuntish personality, which I may be throwing rocks in a glass house with my blood soaked sandpaper of personality but it always does just come down to dickheads looking for shit to be pissy about.
Also your over and incorrect use of punctuation makes me think you’re an ancient involent, which frankly speaking is fitting.
I have to agree. I have spent nearly 39 years on this earth and I’ve never had problems with outrage and/or targeted character assassination. That sounds like a problem for cunts.
It can still happen through bad actors… I have a friend who was dumped by someone a few years ago, but to make themselves fell better they spread false rumors about my friend.
However, spy/pervert glasses wouldn’t have been usefull. You can’t prove you didn’t do something with recording…
Yeah perv glasses ain’t gonna do jack shit for most types of character assassinations, maybe it could help with a scuffle or something but I find that the best thing to do in that situation is to come across as bored and vaguely irritated while giving your side to the cops in the aftermath. Seriously cops love it when you give dry but pissy explanations since it’s easy to write down.
I’d wear them if they didn’t have a camera - the idea of a little screen and the music/phone call capabilities baked into something I have to wear every waking moment anyways actually sounds really nice. I’d probably turn off the display after the novelty wore off, but the audio alone is still worth it to me.
yeah the camera is the troublesome part. Thing is it is useful for camera tracking.
No way, microphone is much worse
microphone has many more basic uses. taking notes. voice command. I mean we all realize all the smartphones have both of these things right. I mean that is why I don’t really like them but I would more like AR although realistically not in a corp is controlling everything way. If it was open source and local and under my control that would be super cool.
Eh. It’s already pretty easy to conceal a microphone. Harder to conceal a camera.
Actually something I worry about …… my glasses have tiny embedded magnets for “click-on” sunglasses. Maybe they could be mistaken for tiny cameras on pervert glasses
It’s actually pretty easy to conceal. there’s plenty of investigative reporting with hidden cameras and nobody’s none the wiser. The fact that they have to add a light to the glasses proves that even if you hide it in plain sight, people will still miss it.
The Even G2 is screen, audio and no camera. https://www.evenrealities.com/products/g2-a
I’ve never heard of these, will check them out
Then why don’t you buy the Bose ones?
Bose needs to spend more on advertising, I’m the correct audience but I had no idea they made these.
Tell me if you need my info for finder’s fee?
Likely because they only do audio.
Don’t think you read last line of their original message?
The thing is, I’d love glasses with a private display. Imagine walking around a strange city with maps displayed in your vision, or giving a talk and having your notes in your view. Specs with screens! But why would I also want a camera? If I wanted to photograph something I can use my phone - perhaps using my SpecScreen as a viewfinder, sure, but the camera can happily live in my phone still. Basically, I’m worried the perverts are going to ruin glasses with HUDs for the rest of us. There must be dozens of us non-perverts, surely?
There are plenty of legit use cases for a camera. Traveling in a foreign place the glasses could overlay text in your language. Looking at a transit table it could highlight the correct route and time. And anytime you meet someone new it could store their name and face in a database.
And anytime you meet someone new it could store their name and face in a database.
Enough of this dystopian bullshit! Or was that satire?
It was a bit self-satirical. But it would be really helpful for me, if it existed. I’m not about to buy a face camera but I can imagine some people in sales might like such a feature.
If someone in sales is logging and recording my interactions with them, storing my name and face in a database and feeding it into facial recognition software, then I’m not buying anything from them.
Me neither. In fact regardless of what’s on their face they can fuck right off.
one of the leaked “test” features that everyone hated was the facial recognition…and i get it. lot’s of opertunity for abuse. Shame though as that would be SO usfull to those with prosopagnosia or people like me who have an inability to remember names. It has hurt me profesionaly throughout my life. having the name and a few relivent facts about people pop up would just put me on the same playing field with those who can remember.
does that utility outweigh the privacy of the public though?
Shame it’s meta because the answer will always skew towards invading privacy and shitting on the others.
You have no expectation of privacy in public.
Exactly. Navigating a city isn’t really that hard from a phone, even if you don’t speak the language. You don’t need to be staring at it the whole time if you learn how to just orient yourself on a street grid. Having a HUD for that purpose might be a neat trick, but not at the expense of being constantly recorded.
There is no privacy in public, by definition of those two words. I’m less concerned about a camera on somebodies face, and more concerned about the legality of doing facial recognition, and identifying and tracking of people without their explicit consent. See one is about the personal utility of camera-interfaced computing, and the other is corporate espionage. But unless lawmakers can draw that line and enforce it, we will probably just end up with spyware.
I don’t see the uproar over cameras on the face when pinhole button cameras have existed for decades.
There is no privacy in public, by definition of those two words.
creep. so quick to carve out the rules by which you and other can invade the privacy of individuals. you know there’s a difference between general photography and this. you know this. I don’t have to explain it to you.
you’re just a creep who wants to creep on women and kids.
You caught me. I go around with my wife and daughter so I can get away with being a creep. Don’t tell the moms on the playground.
if you cared about them you’d care about this. the fact that you immediately jump to legal definitions created in the age of film is absurd; there was never a minox that had 4k video, but that’s what we’re looking at these days. and you don’t seem to care that there’s a booming market to disable the recording lights.
If I were your wife and daughter I’d be creeped out by you.
You don’t know shit about me bro. Creepers gonna creep. If they want to hide a camera they can do it in lapel pin or something. Being paranoid about it won’t stop anything. Making legislation to require a recording light will just de-tune the public’s vigilance when they don’t see a light. It won’t stop people from taking discrete photos. If you’re scared of having your photo taken, stay inside. There are a huge number of automatic license plate cameras owned by corporations logging your plates. They may also be capturing and analyzing your face. That is a lot more concerning to me than some dude wearing glasses.
Er. What is the antonym of private?
How would a view like that work without a camera? It needs to see streets to display the map accurately since GOS could only be accurate within 5meters sometimes.
It doesn’t have to be a full on quest marker HUD overlay, just being able to glance at a mirror of your phone’s map display in your peripheral vision without taking it out of your pocket would be great.
You just need GPS and a compass. https://www.evenrealities.com/products/g2-a
Ok if I had the kind of money to buy that casually I might, the transcription looks useful
I’m tempted by the (semi) open source possibilities https://hub.evenrealities.com/
A while ago I would have agreed with this whole heartedly.
Now I’m old and grumpy and everything seems like a can / should question where the “should” part is only satisfied if a really significant problem is solved, because the “can” part always requires a trade off that is rarely worth the cost.
Same. I even have a pair that I’m working on setting up as an accessibility device, but i worry that even with the camera looking thing taped, that it’s going to cause issues, especially since I’ll have a visible wire hooked up to a raspberry pi.
EDIT: I forgot to specify that this is a viture luma and not the meta raybans, which i wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole
I’m a pervert and I’m right there with you. I have destroyed three pairs of these so far.
You know what there should be a pull-down menu option on all phones called, “Radius” and it puts up a censored image over you like a box or a blur that can not be removed by any smart glasses wearer but can be removed by LEO’s if needed. It could use the compasses proximity sensor and identify smart glasses in the area. Could be a nice addition to Android or Graphene.
Better yet the glasses should just blur any human or replace them with an avatar.
That’s impossible. The information is already gathered, you could just be sending a beacon out saying “please don’t process this”.
What’s to stop them from ignoring that?
Literally a black mirror episode
