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

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Post by idiotsecant »

autoexec wrote: post #44
pseudocomposer wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We definitely don’t have any hard boundaries baked into this tech preventing big tech from (ab)using our data this way. But are there specific companies you think are doing this? I think with Meta products, it’s been rather obvious for a long time. But I’ve had a Nest doorbell camera and thermostats for years, and first iRobot and now Roborock vacuums, and they don’t really seem so suspect.

You should assume that Google is collecting every scrap of data they can from nest products and that your data will (or could) be handed over to police and the state with or without warrants and with zero notice to you. There were concerns raised with irobot devices selling the floorplans of your home ( https://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of... ) and now its owned by China (Picea) so who knows w…

Not your compute, not your data.

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

chaostheory wrote: post #64
simmerup wrote: post #10

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And now realise the same is true for your robot vacuum, car camera, doorbell camera, etc etc We consumers have no protection against big tech

> We consumers have no protection against big tech I like to call big tech, “Little Sister” since governments are “Big Brother”

They're both Big Brother.

And they both charge an annual subscription.

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

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

indubioprorubik wrote: post #34
simmerup wrote: post #10

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And now realise the same is true for your robot vacuum, car camera, doorbell camera, etc etc We consumers have no protection against big tech

At least the vacuum does not try to start a civil war for add impressions..

Yet.

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

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Post by themafia »

paxys wrote: 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.

When people are done being disgusted by it.

It would probably help if Meta admitted it did wrong and wasn't fighting it in court.

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Post by hrimfaxi »

staplers wrote: post #18
autoexec wrote: 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".

My first thought was of people who may have been wearing them while entering passwords or viewing sensitive information.

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Post by paulbgd »

paxys wrote: 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.

I honestly prefer the ars article here just because there's no onscroll fancy animation, just an actual textual description of what's being reported.

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

boomskats wrote: post #19
simmerup wrote: post #10

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And now realise the same is true for your robot vacuum, car camera, doorbell camera, etc etc We consumers have no protection against big tech

Speak for yourself, I rooted my vacuum the day I bought it

And Meta employees have re-watched the footage of you performing that act a number of times.

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Post by Semaphor »

Gigachad wrote: post #68
Semaphor wrote: post #15

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Sure you do. All of those are available in local versions without Internet. You just need to care enough, be able to afford them (while my vacuum has no camera, it requires the cloud, but it was significantly cheaper than a local or hackable one), and have the ability to self host something like home assistant.

And what are you doing about everyone elses amazon cameras that are watching you wherever you go, all uploaded to the cloud and processed by AI.

That does requires laws. We have those here.
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