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

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Post by drawnwren »

alterom wrote: post #346
zmmmmm wrote: post #194

I do think it's completely unacceptable if Meta makes the glasses unable to be used for routine functions without (a) other humans reviewing your private content and (b) AI training on your content. There needs to be total transparency to people when this is happening - these are absolutes. But I'm a bit confused by the article because it describes things that seem really unlikely given how the glasses work. They shi…

>hard to believe even Meta would do this intentionally). Hahahahahahahaha ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard ZUCK: just ask ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one? ZUCK: people just submitted it ZUCK: i don’t know why ZUCK: they “trust me” ZUCK: dumb fucks Actual quote, BTW [1]. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face…

As much as this is a damning quote, it is perhaps also damning that any time someone wants to smear zuck they have to reach 20 years into the past.

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

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Post by cindyllm »

al_borland wrote: post #370
grigri907 wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know. I clearly remember a time when phones first got cameras and there were debates on whether or not we should prohibit phones in public bathrooms. Perceptions changed. Fast.

I think the social contract is still such that your phone’s camera should not be used in the bathroom. I’ve seen stories of people banned from gyms for taking selfies in the locker room as people were walking by.

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

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Post by sharkweek »

I really want to make a fake PSA that suggests anyone wearing the Meta glasses is probably a pervert and should be proactively avoided/shunned.

This product cannot be allowed to exist in the type of world I want to live in.

The power structure wants these to succeed in the market for so many horrific reasons and it will require some serious societal muscle to reject them.

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

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Post by huddert »

chwahoo wrote: post #271

I'll confess that I like my Meta Ray Ban glasses: I love using them to listen to podcasts at the pool/beach, while riding my bike, and it's cool to snap a quick picture of my kids without pulling out my phone. I wish this article (or Meta) were a bit clearer about the specific connection between the device settings and use and when humans get access to the images. My settings are: - [OFF] "Share additional data" - Sh…

Do you take them off in the bathroom? Or if the wife is feeling spontaneous?

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Post by wolvoleo »

alwa wrote: post #329
xboxnolifes wrote: post #115

Earlier 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.

And yet, the New York Times reports that all the hottest clubs are banning phones on the dance floor. Perhaps in reaction to having lived the downsides of omnipresent social surveillance, the youngest adults in my life are uniformly sober about the perils of oversharing. Then again, there may be some selection bias at play… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/nyregion/nyc-nightlife-no...

Yes here in Europe too. I really love this.

You can keep your phone here but the cameras are taped off. Of course that can easily be undone but it avoids the "oh sorry I forgot it wasn't allowed" excuse.

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Post by chwahoo »

huddert wrote: post #375
chwahoo wrote: post #271

I'll confess that I like my Meta Ray Ban glasses: I love using them to listen to podcasts at the pool/beach, while riding my bike, and it's cool to snap a quick picture of my kids without pulling out my phone. I wish this article (or Meta) were a bit clearer about the specific connection between the device settings and use and when humans get access to the images. My settings are: - [OFF] "Share additional data" - Sh…

Do you take them off in the bathroom? Or if the wife is feeling spontaneous?

They're sunglasses so I mainly wear them outside.

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Post by al_borland »

bogzz wrote: post #34

I am so far removed from the type of person who might consider buying something like that. You'd have to be exceptionally impervious to social cues to even think of wearing that in public. If you're blind, it's of course understandable but that's pretty much it in terms of cases in which I would consider the glasses acceptable to wear in public.

I hired some people to come do some work at my house. One of them was wearing Meta glasses. He said he got them so he could keep both his hands free while crawling around in an attic or wherever, and getting video of what they were inspecting to document the work to be done.

It’s possible that even if all your friends/family would stay far away, they could still end up in your proximity.

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Post by roughly »

chwahoo wrote: post #351
zhubert wrote: post #337

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you believe that you are in control?

I think the most likely case is: this company is labeling images from meta AI use from people who opted-in to share their data with Meta. It's certainly possible that it's something much more surprising / sinister, but there is a fairly logical combination of settings that I could see a company could argue lets them use the data for training. I'm also very certain that few users with these settings would expect the i…

What in Meta's history would lead you to give them the benefit of the doubt like this?

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chwahoo wrote: post #271

I'll confess that I like my Meta Ray Ban glasses: I love using them to listen to podcasts at the pool/beach, while riding my bike, and it's cool to snap a quick picture of my kids without pulling out my phone. I wish this article (or Meta) were a bit clearer about the specific connection between the device settings and use and when humans get access to the images. My settings are: - [OFF] "Share additional data" - Sh…

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