Meta glasses. Just why??

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Just came across these. Wtf? Glasses secretly recording people?? Why is something like this even invented?

www.meta.com/gb/ai-glasses/meta-glasses/kylie-jenner/?srsltid=AfmBOork-FLuXM_Z68vOl7q1qmNd4r5DXYPnTMQDlkkShjHOg_n-6x9U

Exactly this. A pervert with a phone in a children's splash park is obvious, one with glasses recording not so obvious.

Thank you. You got the points across a lot better than I have.

I can see why people are disapproving of them but they have pretty obvious cameras on them. My window cleaner has a pair and I could tell straight away they were not regular glasses.

DH has put in a complaint to Boots (no response though) because he went to collect his prescription and the pharmacy assistant was wearing them. So presumably sending data back onto a server - every customer's name, address, and what their medicine was....

Your WINDOW CLEANER?? Who will be filming since bedrooms and living rooms??
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You can cover or remove the flashing light

Oh hell yeah!!

I said that I agreed an outright ban is not the answer.

She could be recording your conversation.

A PHARMACIST?? During working hours?! What possible legitimate reason for this could there be? That’s a question for all the posters pretending to be so cool with their “but this is nothing new!” replies. Yes it may protect the employee (or the conglomerate employer more likely) but what about the consumer??

This needs proper scrutiny and regulation. Which isn’t going to happen given everything else going on. It’s legitimately terrifying that we’re entering a brand new world without the majority of the world even knowing it. And all the people exclaiming about how amazing the progress is are going to be the first to complain when they get hurt by it 🤬🤬

whats the difference with store cctv and ai tracking and id of each person that uses the store vs the glasses ?

With the red light on and recording? I could kind of understand people with prescription lenses might wear them all the time including at work but not se them for recording.

Well for starters, presumably the CCTV and AI tracking would be held within the store's own systems which should be tightly controlled. This is just some random employee's personal glasses, with the data going who knows where.

its strange the biggest data risks are peoples phones, facebook, any other sites they use are all data points that can be used to build a profile of a person

The red light can easily be removed or covered up.

One is in my face, recording my voice and facial expressions and what I didn’t say as much as what I did say. One isn’t.

Both are open to abuse and modification with/without AI.

CCTV is obvious to me, these glasses aren’t.

One has notices all around the store telling me the surveillance is in use; one is utterly covert and INTENDED to go unnoticed.

These glasses may be for personal use for all I know, used by one pharmacist with nefarious intentions. One is used by a corporation which is obliged to abide by developed law and jurisprudence (whether it does or doesn’t is a different matter).

Is it really not obvious what the differences are? Can you actually, really not see the difference or is your question code for “don’t be so boring”?

You can still see the camera though. He turned them on to show me and I saw the light but even when they were off the camera is really obvious I knew straight off what they were and I’d never seen them in real life before.
He’s not recording in bedrooms and bathrooms not least because he doesn’t go up ladders but also because I know his family really well and he’s completely trustworthy and not a pervert!

yet in public there is no legal right to privacy and therefore no one needs signs,

My Husband has some. He wears them cycling and paddle boarding, so he can listen to music and take photos.

I watched a discussion about this a while back. The a**holes who promote them say its easy to know if you are recording because a white light comes on, this is their justification. The other party quite rightly argued that it they want to let people know they are recording why isn't it a red light? Is that not the more common signal for recording? There as some BS reason given. I couldn't believe they are legal. If they help visually impaired then that's fair enough but they could be prescription based or licence based.

I really hope the tech companies will get major pushback in the next 10 years as we legislate against them. Someday our grandchildren will be appalled at what we let happen in the first few decades of the 2000s.

Smart glasses have been around for years, Meta are on at least their 3rd generation and there are loads of others.

As I understand it they have a built-in safeguard around covering the camera light (so they can't record if it is covered) although this can be hacked by people. I could record you on my phone with no light on though.

The current meta glasses work as open ear headphones, you can take calls / have messages read out, send texts hands free and they offer AI to do things like live translation, reading signs, identifying objects. At one point I'm sure they were advertising them as you could look in your fridge and ask it for suggestions for recipes you could make from what you had etc.

Other smart glasses have a built in "heads up display" so you could for example read your texts or have a map with directions visible on the inside of the glasses where only you could see it, rather than having to walk round looking at a phone screen.

They are useful tech for people with some disabilities or just people who want to have both hands free for certain tasks.

They are really not the covert cameras I would be concerned about. Although meta, like most companies isn't all that trustworthy where your data is concerned.

We have some and I use them solely when trying to record family events I’m participating and want to keep like disneyworld trips , active holidays and similar . Never used them daily and I would never

This. My friend has a pair. They can read text to her and tell her what is in front of her. She loves them. She's registered blind.

thats the other thing people forget, how their trusted companies are with their data and yet still use their services

I'm wondering how workplaces are dealing with these when employees are working with confidential data all day. Yes, rogue employees can use their phones to copy anything but these make it far easier to do this covertly.