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Meta smart glasses or any camera, the problem is not in what you are using, the problem is how easy it is to dig out the information about people in real-time.

creativenolo 2y ago
They are two related and valid problems. In the UK, speed cameras are painted bright yellow. These are Raybans - designed for social dynamics - with the addition of a concealed camera. Both are “any camera” that can dig out realtime information about people. Not this comment per se, but the lack of critical thinking in comments here on topics like this is frightening. Especially given this is where you’d hope to find the discussion, and likely contains many people steering this technology and change. And to be honest, my critical thinking ain’t that sharp but I can see something interesting beyond its any camera.
- thomassmith65 2y ago
  the lack of critical thinking in comments here on topics like this is frightening. Especially given this is where you’d hope to find the discussion This is true and it is frustrating. In the 2020's, you really shouldn't be able to finish a CompSci degree without at least one course in the ethics/history of technology.
thomassmith65 2y ago
As you point out, the data collection that enables this privacy abomination is the larger problem... ...but not by much. The difference here is that spying with glasses is passive, whereas spying with other devices requires the spy to take some kind of action. If some stranger wants to identify me using their smart phone, or other portable camera, they need (1) to care enough about me to bother (2) to physically hold up their device (which draws attention, and is socially unacceptable). But smart glasses, CCTV, and other passive spy devices are much worse: the subjects being spied upon can be spied upon en masse, and get fewer opportunities even to notice they are on camera.
- pk-protect-ai 2y ago
  The variety of devices available on the market surpasses your imagination. Meta's glasses use the same cameras that may be embedded elsewhere in hats and clothing. There are smaller and larger cameras. Meta's glasses simply provide a single person with real-time operational feedback. Whoever is spying usually already knows what they are after. I can't grasp why people are not frightened by the fact that their information can be so easily accessed, yet they are concentrating on some specific device (yes, with some additional benefits for the user, though it's not the only device of its kind).

creativenolo 2y ago

They are two related and valid problems. In the UK, speed cameras are painted bright yellow. These are Raybans - designed for social dynamics - with the addition of a concealed camera. Both are “any camera” that can dig out realtime information about people. Not this comment per se, but the lack of critical thinking in comments here on topics like this is frightening. Especially given this is where you’d hope to find the discussion, and likely contains many people steering this technology and change. And to be honest, my critical thinking ain’t that sharp but I can see something interesting beyond its any camera.

thomassmith65 2y ago
the lack of critical thinking in comments here on topics like this is frightening. Especially given this is where you’d hope to find the discussion This is true and it is frustrating. In the 2020's, you really shouldn't be able to finish a CompSci degree without at least one course in the ethics/history of technology.

thomassmith65 2y ago

As you point out, the data collection that enables this privacy abomination is the larger problem... ...but not by much. The difference here is that spying with glasses is passive, whereas spying with other devices requires the spy to take some kind of action. If some stranger wants to identify me using their smart phone, or other portable camera, they need (1) to care enough about me to bother (2) to physically hold up their device (which draws attention, and is socially unacceptable). But smart glasses, CCTV, and other passive spy devices are much worse: the subjects being spied upon can be spied upon en masse, and get fewer opportunities even to notice they are on camera.

pk-protect-ai 2y ago
The variety of devices available on the market surpasses your imagination. Meta's glasses use the same cameras that may be embedded elsewhere in hats and clothing. There are smaller and larger cameras. Meta's glasses simply provide a single person with real-time operational feedback. Whoever is spying usually already knows what they are after. I can't grasp why people are not frightened by the fact that their information can be so easily accessed, yet they are concentrating on some specific device (yes, with some additional benefits for the user, though it's not the only device of its kind).