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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
- ChrisArchitect 8mo ago[dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130
- baal80spam 8mo ago[flagged]
- ryandrake 8mo agoPrivacy-wise, isn't this completely on-brand and expected from Meta? Is anyone surprised by these kinds of revelations?
- moab 8mo agoNo. Read the book "Careless People". Meta leadership tried to downplay it by saying the stories are exaggerated. It seems doubtful to me.
- kjsingh 8mo agoI have read it and was enough to delete the insta account for good. Still have the fb unfortunately use it to handle some Non profit pages
- visheshdembla 8mo ago[flagged]
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- dylan604 8mo agoWhile water maybe we, grass being green is going to be a regional/timing thing. My grass currently brown
- JohnMakin 8mo agoIt's cheaper for them to settle in a lawsuit than what they are gaining by doing this. If it wasn't, they wouldn't. The laws are broken.
- sdoering 8mo agoAs is already revealed with Meta leadership knowing that they make 7billion a year on scam ads. They even calculated that global regulations and fines might cost them 1 billion. So fines and regulations are priced in as a fraction of the net earnings. https://mashable.com/article/meta-7-billion-dollars-scam-ads https://mashable.com/article/meta-7-billion-dollars-scam-ads
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- autoexec 8mo ago"using the bathroom" will be the least of what they're watching people do. Anyone wearing these glasses (or similar) should know that all of the audio/video picked up by the glasses will be watched and analyzed by others, likely by AI as well. Just like the entire point of facebook is to spy on people and profit from that data, the entire point of these devices is to spy on people in ways that the facebook app doesn't/can't and profit from that data.
- simmerup 8mo agoAnd now realise the same is true for your robot vacuum, car camera, doorbell camera, etc etc We consumers have no protection against big tech
- SoftTalker 8mo agoDon't use it.
- Semaphor 8mo agoSure you do. All of those are available in local versions without Internet. Youjust need to care enough, be able to afford them (while my vacuum has no camera, it requires the cloud, but it was significantly cheaper than a local or hackable one), and have the ability to self host something like home assistant.
- simmerup 8mo agoHow about we just enforce minimum privacy standards on big tech instead? Sure you can root all your own hardware but you can’t stop the fact that your walk down the street is documented by Amazon and Google front door bells There is no opt out of this surveillance if you live in modern society
- whilenot-dev 8mo ago> if you live in modern society Quite an if you got there... pointing security or doorbell cameras to public spaces isn't legal where I live.
- nervysnail 8mo ago[flagged]
- philipallstar 8mo agoWhy especially public transport?
- irishcoffee 8mo agoWell, when you physically assault someone on public transport, at least there's a lot of witnesses present who can testify against you?
- dylan604 8mo agoOr for you. If nobody saw nuthin...
- nervysnail 8mo agoBecause I don't like the idea of someone sitting in front of me and filming me in a situation where I cannot move.
- kotaKat 8mo ago“Hey Meta” gets “OK Glassed”.
- anonym29 8mo agoViolence isn't the answer. Handheld IR/non-visible-wavelength LiDAR systems that permanently fry CMOS image sensors are. If state laws permit the capture of light, let them capture light. Light has no spectrum allocation laws, no license required to emit, and as long as you're not disturbing anyone (e.g. with deliberately obnoxious use of visible wavelengths), you're not breaking any laws. LiDAR operators do not have a legal duty to protect image sensors around them.
- munk-a 8mo agoAs much as I'd like a quick hack to disable raybands recording me - that feels like a pretty slam dunk case of destruction of property.
- paxys 8mo agoHow many times will the same report be regurgitated and reposted? There is nothing added here that the original source didn't cover already (https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-...). Read that instead of the derivative blogspam.
- winddude 8mo agoYea, but not a bad reminder to ridicule people who wear them, and if possible destroy on site.
- miltonlost 8mo agoCan that original source be reposted on HN within a short timespan or will it be deleted/comments moved? How then would this report gain more traction if only allowed once?
- gus_massa 8mo agoFrom a comment by ChrisArchitect somewhere in this thread: > [dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130 . More info: 1439 points | 6 days ago | 838 comments
- themafia 8mo agoWhen people are done being disgusted by it. It would probably help if Meta admitted it did wrong and wasn't fighting it in court.
- paulbgd 8mo agoI honestly prefer the ars article here just because there's no onscroll fancy animation, just an actual textual description of what's being reported.
- paxys 8mo agoMeta does Meta things (again). People surprised (again).
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- munk-a 8mo agoWon't this cause significant legal issues in two party consent states and have a huge potential to run afoul of revenge porn laws?
- donmcronald 8mo agoWhere are all the think of the children people now?
- munk-a 8mo agoI've heard that the government has terabytes of data on people that spend far too much time thinking of the children.
- thegrim33 8mo agoSource: Someone who says that someone said that someone anonymous said. (Literally)
- magicalist 8mo ago> Source: Someone who says that someone said that someone anonymous said. (Literally) Weird way to say workers given anonymity for whistleblowing interviewed by two reporters and not denied by meta in their response?
- m4rtink 8mo agoFacebook at it again - creating the worst possible image in society of a potentially useful technology by their carelessness and greed.
- clickety_clack 8mo agoTrue creeper glasses.
- Bender 8mo agoSimilar to Pokemon Go big tech can get footage in places not visible from the road. At work in the restroom should be a notification to HR and lawsuits. In some states this would be jail time [1]. [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sVTm608LBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sVTm608LBg [video][50m]
- emsign 8mo agoAI = Mary, Moses and David from Kenya, ...
- h4kunamata 8mo agoDeserved. We have been telling people to stay away from big USA tech companies and what they do?? Buy a smart glass from said company!! No symphaty, and knowing how the system works, these videos will never be deleted and will move from one hanf to another, until somebody leaks them online or request money. People never learn!!!
- woodpanel 8mo agoStill, amazing how Meta (and Luxottica?) massaged the media to have the wearers of its dystopian goggles not labeled how they ought to be labeled: Glassholes.
- iJohnDoe 8mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226756
- ginkgotree 8mo agoPutting a camera and microphone on your head and wearing it all day, connected to a platform with Mark Zuckerberg at the helm... what do you expect?
- gdevenyi 8mo agohttps://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
- hknceykbx 8mo agoYou have to record no? Why would you record while in bathroom? Or do they record always?
- jamesjolliffe 8mo agoGreat! Maybe I can finally get a woman to see me naked!
- Snowfield9571 8mo agoAdd it to the list. Here are just a few more of their flagrant privacy violations. Facebook/Meta pays teens to install a VPN so they can snoop on user traffic and decrypts competitors traffic (Snapchat) under guidance of Zuckerberg himself. [1] Facebook/Meta covertly backdoors users phones [2] Facebook requests phone number for 2FA and then uses for ads/tracking without disclosure [3] [1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-sn... [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20260116094503/https://localmess.github.io/ http://web.archive.org/web/20260116094503/https://localmess.... [3] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/press-release/file/1186506/dl https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/press-release/file/1186...