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I dislike Facebook and deleted my account even before they changed to “Meta”. I also value privacy.

But what privacy violations do “smart glasses” provide that weren’t already trivially available? Tiny cameras are insanely cheap. A reasonably handy person could hide several on their person and there are plenty of “spy shops” that sell actual wearable hidden cameras.

The “I love ICE” kid was wearing Meta Ray Bans but the first video I saw of it was from someone else’ camera. I can’t leave the house without getting filmed from multiple angles. The only thing those glasses do is make it really obvious that the wearer is a dumbass.

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ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The difference is that meta glasses constantly upload to their creepy servers to do automatic face recognition.

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- nednobbins@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  As does Ring, Flock, Samsung, Apple, Google and so on. Some random person with any other hidden camera can easily upload them to creepy servers and do automatic face recognition on them too.
  
  Steve Mann en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor) has been doing that for a long time.
  
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- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  True, but understand, every wireless-connected smart device you wear or interact with in any way is doing the same.
  
  Meta’s nonsense isn’t unique, and should be regulated into nonexistence, but unless you’re keeping your phone in a Faraday bag you too are being constantly filmed, tracked, and snooped upon.
  
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  - motruck@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Alternative android OSes also not withstanding.
    
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  - ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    No, my iPhone is not doing that because they give you a switch to turn it off and encrypt anything Apple touches. It disables some handy features but it’s a worthwhile trade off in my opinion.
    
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    FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’m sure that switch disables it and isn’t just a presentation. Cheers.
    
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Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There is a big difference between available and normalized. Buying a tiny camera to film people without consent makes you a creep in a way buying a social media corporation’s product doesn’t. Pulling out a camera to film someone is a signal to them that they are being filmed in a way looking at them while wearing camera glasses isn’t.

These glasses could change the landscape of our social reality. If they catch on, corporations will know your facial expressions, your location, and what you are looking at whenever you are in public, even if you have no account.

They will learn the face you make when you are too tired to argue and tell the shops you’re heading towards that you’re an easy mark today.

They will see a flash of defiance on your face when you hear someone say Nazi shit and change the video advertisements you walk by to ones that will make you feel powerless.

And so the net is pulled ever-tighter. All we can do is try to cut our way out.

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- nednobbins@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  If I understand your response correctly, you’re arguing that the glasses themselves aren’t the issue, it’s the shifts that come with accepting the glasses.
  
  They may ironically have the reverse effect. I guarantee that corporations are already cataloging your facial expressions. Between Ring, Flock, Apple, Google, Netflix, Samsung, etc. there are many pictures of all our faces with rich annotation. Currently most people don’t even think about how thoroughly they’re being watched. These douchy glasses may actually draw attention to the matter.
  
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chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Found the fanboy.

“HEY GUYS IT’S NO BIG DEAL NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. I DISLIKE FACEBOOK BUT DEFINITELY DON’T SEE THE PROBLEM WITH THESE ALWAYS ON SPY DEVICES THAT ARE CONSTANTLY CONNECTED TO DEMONSTRABLY EVIL PEOPLE”

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- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Not actually what they said, though.
  
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  - chaotic_ugly@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Downplaying in the war for privacy is vouching for the enemy.
    
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Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The main differences I can think of are:

Better video quality

More normalized

Easier to get your hands on

They look like raybans and are brand name

They’re debatibly “cool”

Basically they produce better video and are more normalized in society.
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- nednobbins@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  They can produce better video than some cameras but not as good as others. 12MP ultrawide is pretty standard on security cameras and they’re already all over the place.
  
  Do you think that the current smart glasses are making surveillance more normalized or do you think that they’re getting more common because we’ve already normalized constant surveillance?
  
  I’d point out that the PATRIOT act passed a quarter century ago with only one “No” and one abstention.
  
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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Let’s see how “cool” and “normalized” they are when police arrest the first guy recording around a playgound.
  
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