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

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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 voidUpdate »

wolvoleo wrote: post #87
voidUpdate wrote: post #82

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I can imagine there are many use-cases for blind people, but I also think having some kind of visual indicator that "these glasses are recording" would be good, and I don't know what tools you use in public at the moment, but if you use, for example, a white cane, it might help people to understand "this person is using a camera for assistance". But yes, the fact that glasses manufacturers have already demonstrated t…

They have such an indication already, an LED light on the other side of the frame. Of course you have to be able to spot that. And trust that it really doesn't record when it's off (note that it simply may be covered by the user)

I seem to recall that when the snapchat glasses were a thing, they had a very bright an obvious ring of LEDs around the camera itself, that were bright enough to shine through a sticker placed over them. Sure, there are still ways to defeat that, but it makes it a bit harder.

Also I just googled for what the light actually looks like when it's recording, and it's not even really that visible...

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

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Post by 2ndorderthought »

mulr00ney wrote: post #67
OutOfHere wrote: post #31

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>It is not up to you to deprive anyone their right to use them. Why is it a right? >Are you going to go after car cameras next? No. A car cannot follow me into a building very easily. It cannot turn as quickly as a human head. >Any American who has any opposition to public recording is violating the First Amendment and doesn't even deserve to be an American. lmao

I have no idea why you are downvoted.

I do not want my employees recording their day job and selling it, or the creepy dude next to me in the bathroom filming my goods or the log jam flying out of my butt so meta can try to sell me pepto.

I also don't want that one time I did something minor illegal like jay walking get auto fed into palantir so they can ship me to the latest internment camp.

Or someone stealing my biometrics by just walking past me.

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

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Post by randallsquared »

voidUpdate wrote: post #36
amelius wrote: post #25

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People do that on my subway all the time. It's the camera of their smartphone. Not sure if it's ON though.

They point the camera of their smartphone directly at you?

At everything on the opposite side of the screen, typically. There is a recording light for Meta glasses, but not one for iPhones, for example: the "recording" indicators are all user-side there.

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

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Post by arowthway »

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

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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?

Because person wearing glasses usually can move and video surveillance cameras usually can't? If that's not it then spell it out for me, please. Also, why would i be deceptive in this discussion? I feel like I missed some ideological conflict.

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

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Post by elevation »

everdrive wrote: post #3
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.

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.

> I wouldn't even recommend being in their presence.

Great! Now do people with smart TVs and people with smart phones

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

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Post by chneu »

redbell wrote: post #48

> "We see everything - from living rooms to naked bodies ," one worker reportedly said. > Meta said this was for the purpose of improving the customer experience, and was a common practice among other companies. Am I reading this correctly?! This is probably the weirdest statement I've read on the internet in twenty years.

How is this weird? People have been trading away their privacy for the smallest possible gains in convenience for a long time.

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

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Post by Aaronstotle »

everdrive wrote: post #3
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.

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.

I want to get the Oakley Meta ones so I can record bike rides easier, should I not be tolerated?

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

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Post by wolvoleo »

randallsquared wrote: post #93
voidUpdate wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They point the camera of their smartphone directly at you?

At everything on the opposite side of the screen, typically. There is a recording light for Meta glasses, but not one for iPhones, for example: the "recording" indicators are all user-side there.

Usually they are pointed at the ground when they're reading off them.
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