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Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

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Post by OutOfHere »

getnormality wrote: post #8
gorbachev wrote: post #2

Meta cancels the contract with the outsourcing company they contracted to classify smart glasses content after employees at the company whistleblow about serious privacy issues with the content they were paid to classify.

Well, yeah. If I went straight to the press to trash the reputation of my client's product, rather than communicating internally first to help them proactively address the issues, I would expect to get fired. Not that I am remotely interested in defending Meta, or optimistic that they would proactively address privacy issues. But I don't feel that sympathetic to the outsourcing company here either. I don't know what…

Proactively address the issues? Are you kidding me? This is not an issue that just happened to slip by; it is 100% by design. You're fooling no one.

Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

#12

Post by OutOfHere »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #9

Not sure which is worse here - that Meta are recording video from customers' smart glasses, or that they are firing people who talk about it.

Everything having to do with Meta, starting with its very name, has been evil from the start.

Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

#13

Post by getnormality »

OutOfHere wrote: post #11
getnormality wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, yeah. If I went straight to the press to trash the reputation of my client's product, rather than communicating internally first to help them proactively address the issues, I would expect to get fired. Not that I am remotely interested in defending Meta, or optimistic that they would proactively address privacy issues. But I don't feel that sympathetic to the outsourcing company here either. I don't know what…

Proactively address the issues? Are you kidding me? This is not an issue that just happened to slip by; it is 100% by design. You're fooling no one.

What specifically do you mean? It is by design that smart glasses see the things happening in front of their users? Yes, it is. That is why people buy them.

Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

#14

Post by giraffe_lady »

getnormality wrote: post #8
gorbachev wrote: post #2

Meta cancels the contract with the outsourcing company they contracted to classify smart glasses content after employees at the company whistleblow about serious privacy issues with the content they were paid to classify.

Well, yeah. If I went straight to the press to trash the reputation of my client's product, rather than communicating internally first to help them proactively address the issues, I would expect to get fired. Not that I am remotely interested in defending Meta, or optimistic that they would proactively address privacy issues. But I don't feel that sympathetic to the outsourcing company here either. I don't know what…

There are transgressions severe enough that your duty to stop them is heavier than your responsibility to "the reputation of your client's product." Amazing this needs to be stated, frankly.

Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

#15

Post by OutOfHere »

getnormality wrote: post #13
OutOfHere wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Proactively address the issues? Are you kidding me? This is not an issue that just happened to slip by; it is 100% by design. You're fooling no one.

What specifically do you mean? It is by design that smart glasses see the things happening in front of their users? Yes, it is. That is why people buy them.

Huh. There you go again, thinking everyone else is an idiot. Capture of video data of users by Meta is never acceptable. It would not be acceptable for any phone, and it is not acceptable for any glass, ever.

Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

#16

Post by freehorse »

arowthway wrote: post #5
everdrive wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds about right. If you know someone who uses these smart glasses, it's important not to tolerate them whatsoever. Don't speak with them, interact with them. I wouldn't even recommend being in their presence.

Also make sure to avoid people with smartphones and places with video surveilence.

If somebody was pointing a camera on me all the time? I would definitely avoid them.

Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

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Post by db48x »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #7
arowthway wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also make sure to avoid people with smartphones and places with video surveilence.

Is this an honest argument? Surely you can think of how glasses might be ... in a different league than the two items you mention?

Not meaningfully. Anyone holding a smartphone might be recording you. You’d better avoid them if you don’t want to be recorded.

Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

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Post by talkingtab »

Meta said the contracting "did not meet (meta's) standards". I am sure that is true. meta's "standard" is not to reveal the illegal, immoral, unethical things meta does. No matter what the harm.

Maybe a company with those standards should not get our business. Oops, no wait, maybe they mean the Friedman Doctrine standards? In that case they are entitled to do any and every thing to make a profit. No matter what the harm.

[edit: add last two sentences]

Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

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Post by [deleted] »

giraffe_lady wrote: post #14
getnormality wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, yeah. If I went straight to the press to trash the reputation of my client's product, rather than communicating internally first to help them proactively address the issues, I would expect to get fired. Not that I am remotely interested in defending Meta, or optimistic that they would proactively address privacy issues. But I don't feel that sympathetic to the outsourcing company here either. I don't know what…

There are transgressions severe enough that your duty to stop them is heavier than your responsibility to "the reputation of your client's product." Amazing this needs to be stated, frankly.

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