Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How are smart glasses evil?

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  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re literal always-on surveillance that can collect faces, voices and things like local Bluetooth devices or WiFi APs as they walk around.

    Surveillance-capitalism wet dream, because they don’t just collect data on the wearer - but everyone they come near.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So they’re phones that people hold slightly more vertically?

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      • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So this is just a baiting/shitpost reply to achieve nothing?

        How dreary.

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re cameras and microphones and local compute that you don’t actually control rented from an evil corporation.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So an Android phone?

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you walk around with your phone constantly in your hands, recording everything, everywhere, all of the time?

        It is illegal in a good number of places to film, record, surveil people without their consent or a warrant or some kind of exceptional circumstances.

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      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Bro do you seriously need convincing that walking eye-level cameras that record and tag every fucking person you meet on the street and feed that info to Meta is evil? Some asshole walks past you and bam, real-time geotag. Doesn’t really matter if you’re not on facebook after it gets into the hands of data brokers anyway. wtf

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  • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    not the glasses per se, the company behind them, their design and their goals for the glasses are evil

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