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Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
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#242On an unrelated note, the FT reported today [1] that Israel was able to track Iranian leadership by hacking "nearly all" of the traffic cameras in Tehran. Anyways, I think we should continue to put as many networked cameras, microphones, and other sensors in as many products as possible. There are no downsides! [1] https://archive.is/QSCjf
This is a little like how congress feels differently about things like email privacy when they're the ones under the microscope. These ideas seem fine in a world of honest actors, but when there's an adversarial element in the mix, what you thought brought security can be used against you.
Re: Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
#243Meta 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.co…
They better invest in frame designs too cause as soon as they're recognizable they're gonna get slapped off faces real quick
The long term goal might indeed be unrecognizable designs. Perhaps augmented reality contact lens. It will take a long time but people tend to slowly get used to giving more and more of their privacy away. Mojo Vision made a prototype of this. It's more the display but you can imagine the camera being somewhere else and streaming to the lens in an unobstructed way.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
An entire new generation of people have been born and raised into a world that is more accepting of always recording and being recorded since 14 years ago.
A common fear for younger people has become being recorded and becoming famous in some embarrassing video. I don't see the problem as having gone away.
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#246I 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's strange to me that that's the line society seems to have drawn in the sand. Body cam, no problem. Doorbell cam, practically universal. Body cam worn on the face? No way. I wonder why.
Some doorbell cams film other people's homes.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
People don't care about privacy as long as a faceless corporation is doing the spying. People very much care if it has a plausible path to embarrassing or creepy situations involving actual people in your life. The chilling effect of ubiquitous phone cameras is well documented now this would amp it up by a 100. Many cool clubs already put stickers on phone cameras.
> Many cool clubs already put stickers on phone cameras. Can you elaborate on this?
Discussion a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111137
And longer ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42352825
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
People don't care about privacy as long as a faceless corporation is doing the spying. People very much care if it has a plausible path to embarrassing or creepy situations involving actual people in your life. The chilling effect of ubiquitous phone cameras is well documented now this would amp it up by a 100. Many cool clubs already put stickers on phone cameras.
> People don't care about privacy as long as a faceless corporation is doing the spying. This isn't true. Most everyone hates the fact they are being surveilled, but it is pervasive and people only can deal with so many complications in life. Avoiding surveillance is not a decision or action, it is 1000 decisions and actions. Endless decisions and actions.
In my experience most people don't care at all. Even if you tell them about these topics, they find it weird, and tinfoil-hat adjacent. "If you have nothing to hide..." and "why would anyone care about my data in particular?"
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#249Crazy to have 1 trillion invested in data centers, underpinned by dollar-a-day human turk ops
All sorts of industries are capital intensive where labor is relatively cheap. A fancy roller coaster costs $50M, but you pay college students $15 per hour to run it. Airlines spend a few thousand per day on pilots for a $300M plane.
Re: Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
#250Meta 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.co…
They better invest in frame designs too cause as soon as they're recognizable they're gonna get slapped off faces real quick
While I don’t disagree, with the sentiment, is this not incitement of violence?