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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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[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

IMO expectation of privacy is valid, but I believe people should also have the right to reasonably know if they're being recorded. Recording people in public's one thing if you have your phone out and are waving it around pointing it at people, but it's a whole other thing if it's a concealed or otherwise hidden recording device.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ring doorbells, and the like, are everywhere. Hell, I had a bear cruise in the dog door a couple of years ago. Neighbors produced security cam pics and I had no clue they had cameras!

At this point, we might as well assume we're being recorded the moment we step out our front door.

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ah true, I totally forgot about those.

God I don't like our current timeline 😔

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's only valid in private venues. We don't know when were being recorded now and have not really known for decades. This isn't going to change anything on that front.

But something to detect their emissions etc in private venues would be a good idea. That or deployable jamming for Bluetooth and WiFi etc on site.

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s only valid in private venues. We don’t know when were being recorded now and have not really known for decades. This isn’t going to change anything on that front.

Ya, and I think that's something that should change. I should have the right to, within reason, be able to know I'm being recorded at any time.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It would be a nice to have. But there is no realistic way to do that. It is an unreasonable request. At any point in time when you are outside you are being observed by any number of satellites. Through any number of windows. From all number of arbitrary distances. You may as well request omniscience. Since you have an equal chance of obtaining it.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just kind of assume my phone is going to give out more information than a camera ever could, so the very least those companies can do is give me access to that data.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

There's a difference between "on apple's servers" and "a million people harassing you after being pulled into a Livestream against your will" though.

Both are bad, one is worse.