Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’

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• CluckN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They must have a different approach if Google glasses tried the same thing and failed miserably.

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  • Indie59@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Partnering with Luxotica/RayBan to make it look more like normal frames will keep it from being as obvious for one.

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    • dgendreau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The lens on the frame and the swiping to operate it are pretty obvious to me in the demo video.

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    • DieguiTux8623@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Luxottica? Why is always Italy behind this kind of shit?

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  • PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They look like normal glasses, that’s the different approach. The little camera lenses in the corners are the only giveaway.

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doesn’t it have a ‘recording’ LED?

  Remember the good ol’ times when some guy stepped up in the cinema, stood in front of the audience, right when the movie was about to start:

  “OK, Google!”

  :-)

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  • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Great, now they’re going too have to put DMCA protection in and we’re just gonna have people who don’t want to constantly be recorded great wandering around blasting Disney music to trip their DMCA sensors

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• Goodbyeworld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m all for it. If I can walk through the grocery store and AI can track all the prices on everything and help me budget, i would think that’s pretty cool. Or, if I need to check back what a professor said in class and work on the board, boom no problem. I can see people not wanting to get filmed, but aren’t we already being filmed constantly already? Now I get to film for my benefit.

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  • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My privacy issue would be the likely massive access they’d “require” in order to use. If using them means Meta gets access to all source of info just so I can use it, then hell no. If I have relatively complete control over the access I’m fine with it.

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    • Goodbyeworld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, I can see that. I held out from Meta/FB for years for my data’s sake until I started dating a woman in South America and now I have to have What’sAp.

      I would love a private version, too, yes, where I had full control over my data. If Meta is taking basic metadata here, such as location, I think I would still use it, but if they are accessing the actual footage, or getting way to granular with the metadata, then yeah I guess that’s a bit more alarming. Still, it’s not far from what we already have today. You have to fight to not have all your behavior tracked.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Red led is no longer required?

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  • sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    trivial to bypass

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The same tech that can block a webcam camera can also be used to block a camera is active led.

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• photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Idk, I assume I’m being watched via CTV at least wherever I go nowadays. This may be literally in your face, but still… these devices will become invisible and ubiquitous.

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  • dgendreau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Does all that CCTV footage get firehosed to Zuck and friends so they can mass tag everyone in every photo whether you like it or not?

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They don’t really look “hidden” tbqh, the lenses are quite obvious.

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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Try standing 10 ft / 3m away, in a crowd, and not actually expecting anybody to have them. Would you notice?

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess, but by that standard having a mobile phone in a shirt pocket is also hidden.

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    • MooseLad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well now we’re already expecting people to have them, so yeah I think people will notice.

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How very Meta

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• rsaeshalm@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ok, but why?

  Like, why??

  I’d like to run a test on these executives, put everyone with a camera pointing at them whenever they step outside let’s see how long it will take to them hate their own proposal.

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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Data acquisition

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    • rsaeshalm@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Noise acquisition, you mean.

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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cause Zucko needs even more ways to spy on us.

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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the bathroom. :)

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• AwesomeSteve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Out of the loop, do you need a facebook/meta account (if yes, how much info they requested) to use the glasses ?

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  • netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. And yes

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    • Seasm0ke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cant wait for the hackaday firmware

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• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On the one hand I can’t remember the many people I see at work and would love heads-up display saying names, birthdays and reminding me what we spoke about.

  On the other hand I don’t like cameras recording my socially embarrassing actions in the first place, let alone tell people who I am. Like hell I want Zuck to know what stupid shit I said 4 years ago to that one person I won’t see ever again.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And in a future America, Joe Hillbilly shot Stylo Man, because Joe suspected Stylo to spy on him with his funny looking (but otherwise totally ordinary) glasses.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They should have used a photo from a webcam or old phone (or a noise filter) to better represent the nighttime quality of the tiny lenses. The interface is obviously fake, too.

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• ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  hidden camera prank videos are about to become a lot more rampant I think.

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• atk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now I have a fear of being filmed while scratching my nuts.

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  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Might as well just start an OnlyFans and make some lemonade out of the situation.

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• Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What about adding some strong infrareds on your hat?

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  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aw yeah man, got any cool articles on how to assemble your own ;) maybe a little linky poo for the lazy to increase the number of people that’ll probably give it a go?

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    • Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not sure what did you stick up your ass but I hope it was worth the hassle.

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• Sabre363@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Didn’t Google already try this?

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  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google glasses were bloody obvious though… you looked like a poundshop borg.

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    • MooseLad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s because Google actually had HUDs in their glasses. Meta is purely audio.

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• VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Meta pedoglasses, this will end poorly.

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  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Whaaaaaa

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    • NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Won’t somebody think of the children?!

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• ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Remember when Transmetropolitan made this seem cool

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• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there a type of glasses that can detect cameras like an ir sensor?

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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cameras as usually passive (i.e. they don’t emit light or any radiation, they just absorb the one that happens to land on their sensor), so no, not really.

    Tha would be true only for those infrared cameras that have active IR LEDs to see at night, or lidars, radars, structured light 3d cameras, time-of-flight distance sensors, etc or anything that actually emits something. Regular cameras don’t.

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    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a bummer. Is there a heat sensor or something? It’s doing something passive sunglasses don’t, there has to be a way to tell.

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