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Re: Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

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Post by ge96 »

bigyabai wrote: post #3
Havoc wrote: post #2

Brought to you by the CEO that tapes the webcam on his laptop https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuck...

I will be genuinely shocked if people aren't taping their smartphone cameras by 2030.

It is funny since I wonder when you're looking through say the Google Feed (swipe left on Android devices on home screen) does the camera track your eyes, what you're looking at

It does seem harder to tape the phone camera since the in/out motion into your pocket I imagine would remove the tape.

Re: Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

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Post by pimlottc »

Havoc wrote: post #2

Brought to you by the CEO that tapes the webcam on his laptop https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuck...

To be clear, he /puts tape over/ his webcam, that's very different from /taping/ (recording) the output of his webcam.

Re: Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

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Post by idontwantthis »

MerrimanInd wrote: post #17

I was in engineering school back in ~2012 when Google Glass came out. One of my classmates got hold of a pair when they were still quite uncommon and wore them to an extracurricular club meeting. Within minutes someone made a comment about him wearing the "creeper" glasses and asked if he was filming. He never wore them to the club again. I just don't see a world where that doesn't happen with Meta glasses.

It can happen if it’s not easy to tell immediately what they are.

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Post by yonatan8070 »

MerrimanInd wrote: post #17

I was in engineering school back in ~2012 when Google Glass came out. One of my classmates got hold of a pair when they were still quite uncommon and wore them to an extracurricular club meeting. Within minutes someone made a comment about him wearing the "creeper" glasses and asked if he was filming. He never wore them to the club again. I just don't see a world where that doesn't happen with Meta glasses.

Unfortunately, the Meta glasses look much more normal, and a person who isn't actively looking for them (and especially one who is unaware of them) isn't likely to notice them.

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Post by charcircuit »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #15

Beside the privacy part, I fail to see what value these glasses bring that a smartphone with a camera can't do already ? And you're still forced to carry a smartphone anyway with these glasses since they require internet connection. Is this fashion, or something I'm not aware of ? They look horrendous to me.

You can seamlessly take a photos without having to pull your phone out of your pockets and dedicate and arm to filming and you can listen to music without having to touch your phone. The audio recording of videos is 3D and when you play them back it's realistic where the audio is coming from.

>since they require internet connection.

Only the AI features require internet. You can technically take pictures and video without carrying around your phone, but realistically people are going to carry there phone with them.

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Post by hollow-moe »

yogorenapan wrote: post #9

The annoying thing is that even if you yourself don't use these glasses, as long as people around you do, you are still affected by it. We really need laws to limit always-on recording devices in places where we have an expectation of privacy.

"But it's the public space you can't expect any kind of privacy there, if you don't want private companies to do biometrics on your face from a rando glasses just don't go out :)" The open air panopticon, where every inmate is also the warden, gov salivates at the idea. (yes, yes, you're very smart, you, the reader: smartphones are already tracking and recording us everywhere. One more device, one more case isn't an issue anymore. So let's just keep adding them instead of trying to address them.)

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Post by lnrd »

bigyabai wrote: post #3
Havoc wrote: post #2

Brought to you by the CEO that tapes the webcam on his laptop https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/22/mark-zuck...

I will be genuinely shocked if people aren't taping their smartphone cameras by 2030.

Cameras in phones are pretty much locked up today, assuming you have an updated version of the OS from a respectable manufacturer. Apps will not be able to access the camera feed (or the microphone) without explicit consent and a visual warning.

The manufacturer might access it, Apple states they don't, Google and Samsung I'm not sure. A bad actor with 0days might too.

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Post by blakesterz » 

  Meta aims to introduce facial recognition to its smart glasses while its biggest critics are distracted, according to a report from The New York Times. In an internal document reviewed by The Times, Meta says it will launch the feature “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
https://www.theverge.com/tech/878725/meta-facial-recognition...

Re: Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

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Post by groos »

MerrimanInd wrote: post #17

I was in engineering school back in ~2012 when Google Glass came out. One of my classmates got hold of a pair when they were still quite uncommon and wore them to an extracurricular club meeting. Within minutes someone made a comment about him wearing the "creeper" glasses and asked if he was filming. He never wore them to the club again. I just don't see a world where that doesn't happen with Meta glasses.

I have a strict policy of no Meta glasses for guests in my house. Socially, they're poison.
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