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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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Re: Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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Privacy-wise, isn't this completely on-brand and expected from Meta? Is anyone surprised by these kinds of revelations?

No. Read the book "Careless People". Meta leadership tried to downplay it by saying the stories are exaggerated. It seems doubtful to me.

I have read it and was enough to delete the insta account for good. Still have the fb unfortunately use it to handle some Non profit pages

Re: Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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Why especially public transport?

Well, when you physically assault someone on public transport, at least there's a lot of witnesses present who can testify against you?

Re: Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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post #17

How many times will the same report be regurgitated and reposted? There is nothing added here that the original source didn't cover already ( https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-... ). Read that instead of the derivative blogspam.

Yea, but not a bad reminder to ridicule people who wear them, and if possible destroy on site.

Re: Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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post #9

"using the bathroom" will be the least of what they're watching people do. Anyone wearing these glasses (or similar) should know that all of the audio/video picked up by the glasses will be watched and analyzed by others, likely by AI as well. Just like the entire point of facebook is to spy on people and profit from that data, the entire point of these devices is to spy on people in ways that the facebook app doesn'…

Sadly, "using the bathroom" will cause a more immediate visceral reaction for most people than "maliciously manipulating your entire life via ad networks and media".

Do we really care what it is that will cause the visceral reaction? If I said it might reveal ways/means or private IP or any of a million other examples, few would really care as not everyone is involved in that. However, everyone goes to the bathroom.

Re: Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

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Source: Someone who says that someone said that someone anonymous said. (Literally)

> Source: Someone who says that someone said that someone anonymous said. (Literally)

Weird way to say workers given anonymity for whistleblowing interviewed by two reporters and not denied by meta in their response?

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