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This is exactly what I thought when I first saw them. The LED can be easily covered, and they look too much like normal sunglasses for the average person to not
by shever73 5y ago
This is exactly what I thought when I first saw them. The LED can be easily covered, and they look too much like normal sunglasses for the average person to notice.
Day after day, my loathing for Facebook grows.
- pmoriarty 5y agoUnfortunately Facebook is far from the only company that regularly invades and has contempt for privacy. That contemptuous attitude and attempts to profit from privacy invasion is almost omnipresent among companies these days. On the subject of glasses that can record what you see, wasn't Google the first company to market them? There was a similar backlash against them too back then.
- agency 5y agoAt least with Google glass there was little danger of mistaking my them for “normal” glasses. These Facebook/Ray Ban ones are designed to blend in.
- noptd 5y agoYeah, this reminds me of a product you'd find in a spy museum. Cue the chilling effect of having to worry about being recorded whenever you're talking around someone wearing Raybans in public. And before the claims about it not being worse than everyone having a smartphone, etc, it absolutely is - it's far more obvious if someone has their phone in hand.
- FridayoLeary 5y agoIt's not FB. It's progress. You can replace them with any other name in the world. It just happens to be that Facebook announced this rather obvious technology.
- eps 5y agoYou must've missed the first eposide of this show called "Glassholes".
- judge2020 5y agoIn fact, Snapchat has had a similar product for a while with Spectacles[0]. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569182
- annadane 5y agoAh, more of Zuckerberg's jealousy because Snapchat refused their acquisition offer?
- midev 5y ago> Ah, more of Zuckerberg's jealousy because Snapchat refused their acquisition offer? This sounds like a complement, to be honest. If we get awesome, real, AR glasses because Zuckerberg is jealous, then more power to him.
- annadane 5y agoIs this really the general point of view on this website? Are you comfortable with an entity like Facebook which has shown to lie repeatedly, to have spy glasses? An entity like Zuckerberg who is hell-bent on crushing all his competition? Really?
- ryan-allen 5y agoWe'll need to wear hats like this as a countermeasure https://hackaday.com/2020/02/28/using-ir-leds-to-hide-in-plain-sight/ https://hackaday.com/2020/02/28/using-ir-leds-to-hide-in-pla...
- gruez 5y agoDoes that even work for non-shitty cameras, which have IR filters?