Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’::These stylish shades may look like a regular pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, but they’re actually Meta’s new Smart Glasses, complete with two tiny cameras and speakers implanted in the arms. The wearable tech was unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday at the 2023 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, sparking a frenzy online.

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    1 year ago

    Just saying, hidden cameras have been a thing long before the internet was invented

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      Bad people doing bad things is nothing new.

      But these things allow good, otherwise well-intentioned, people, to become unwitting moles for Meta.

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        1 year ago

        Already done by having Facebook, Threads, or Instagram on your phone

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              I would argue that that’s more obvious, the phone/gopro/cemera is up there and you know you are potentially being recorded. Also that’s in the user’s control (i.e. they’ll need to intentionally record).

              Here, given Meta’s greed, we could have a potential subtle and not so obvious recording/surveillance. How would you tell if someone passing by is recording, wearing glasses is pretty common.

              So the tldr is that I argue it’s not the same because it’s not obvious and/or frequent as it is with a camera/phone

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                My argument is that there are not only things that people intentionally publish, but also audio and video recordings that may be being collected on people without their knowledge and could also capture other people near them.