Meta smartglasses linked to secret filming and school harassment
if you're feeling depressed about the current Pervert Glasses media blitz, remember when we collectively bullied Google Glass users so hard they were discontinued
Catbus71nobody likes this shit or the sort of assholes who use it, and no ad buy will ever change that
Jesse Singal Vapes Piss10sure but it would be unusual for google not to abruptly discontinue something
Connor Anderson2One of the few recent instances of public shaming working. Keep it up gang, we’re doing great. We’re working our way up to ICE.
Kyle Wilson2It is a bit heartening that the pervert glasses moniker stuck immediately.
Liz as in lizard 🏳️⚧️2This is probably why this wave is hiding so hard behind “wow do you hate the disabled”, because last time they tried and focused on vague “erm isn’t cool tech do you hate progress” we just said “yea sure” and shoved them in lockers
Rivoluzionario della melanzana2Sadly think this time they seem to being accepted - so many Instagram reels I see filmed on them...
"The man I’m talking to runs a business called Ghost Metas. He’s one of hundreds of vendors, easily discoverable online, who specialise in disabling the flashing LED light embedded in Meta’s smartglasses that blinks when wearers capture photos, videos and audio" www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)16It's so obvious that this technology will be used by men to target women and children. It's a business model relying on the male fucking gaze.
James Harris4“My argument is if you’re really worried about your privacy, don’t go outside.” Fire. Into. The. Sun.
CRobertBuchanan4All I know is they increase your chances of getting your glasses punched off of your face quite signigicantly.
rickoughta.bsky.social2Shit, sounds like the only way to make sure they’re not filming is to grab the glasses and toss them into the nearest dumpster or to just drop them and crush them with your shoes. Sorry bud, I just don’t trust you.
Ewwww_dude1This is why they are all man style shaped , I’m over this time period
epluribus.bsky.social1I think this dumb gadget is another something that will join data centers and Flock as superuniters of the American public.
Ruth Malone, RN, PhD7I miss the analog world
Peta says bring back Łink4Ryan Clarkson, managing partner of Clarkson Law Firm: “In my opinion, they’re designed to maximise profits, and to turn every person who buys one into a Trojan horse of surveillance.”
Gary Dauphin2this was published a few days ago, and now their site says: Sorry, due to the current decision by Meta, we are unable to provide further service at this time. not: Sorry, due to the late bloom/arrival of a shred of basic human decency, we will no longer provide further service.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants AI smart glasses to replace smartphones. Other tech giants are following suit with more wearables. In a world where anonymity is already a precious resource, what does that mean for privacy? New by me for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Maggie Harrison Dupré35One person I spoke to for this story is a young mom who was covertly filmed in her own home — along with her two young children — by a Meta glasses user who then uploaded a video of their interaction online. She only found out about it after a stranger contacted her using PII revealed in the video:
Ozma5Isn’t it illegal in two party consent states to film someone without their consent?
They'll quickly be banned in enough places as to make them impractical. Any business with half-competent security and/or legal counsel, for starters.
web_rant3It means a lot of predators are going to find out exactly what happens in society when you keep assaulting everyone's privacy. bsky.app/profile/mhar...
Paul3I'm imagining a reverse They Live where you can't see reality unless you take the glasses off
James1And as we all know, Mark "Metaverse" Zuckerberg is a fantastic judge of what the 'next big thing' is.
Emma Evans53I'm going to start wearing a travel burka.
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢31Of course he does? Remember Facebook phone?
Cheryl Rofer26Odd that Silicon Valley is introducing this surveillance technology along with AI to make us stupider at this authoritarian moment.
Jeanne Timmons19"Meta refuted to the Guardian that the main purpose of the glasses is to make unnoticeable recordings. But each victim of nonconsensual recordings called attention to the innocuity of the glasses, & how much more difficult...the glasses were to spot compared with handheld cameras or smartphones."
Cross-laminated Tinder12One thing about this is fuck no
J.M. Berger6Get ready to be Optimal I guess
Bort5Means we need to not let them reach their bunkers and hollowed out volcanoes
Glenn White4It means I'm going to start walking around with EMPs.
Monica V.3even more reason to stay home all the time
herbie3didn't we try this with google glass and everyone hated that dot jpg
Meta wants to use the brand popularity of Ray Ban to make their pervert glasses more acceptable. Instead, you should be immediately suspect of anyone wearing Ray Bans and assume the worst. Take Meta's gambit and turn it on its head: anything they touch with their surveillance (and AI) should die.
Jonathan King8Whichever investment fund owns Ray Ban is pissing away a legendary brand and a design icon, the Wayfarer, will be forever tainted.
Ted Berg6Ok but what about people who still have a pair of Ray Bans they got with a vision insurance credit in like 2014 and have otherwise never kept a pair of sunglasses for more than like three weeks? My sunglasses aren’t perving on anyone, they’re a triumph of frugality over lack of executive function.
Lisa Schmeiser4RayBan's owner is EssilorLuxottica, which has huge investments in medical technology too. The Ray Ban/Meta teamup is already a win-win for the company b/c it helps them advance R&D for vision-adjacent medical products. More background here: finance.yahoo.com/news/ray-ban...
meta's currently running an ad campaign about how they're giving the pervert glasses away for free to blind veterans to distract people from what the pervert glasses are actually intended to do
geoffrey60looks like this is their move writ large: if you curb the perverts you're ableist
Armana Legg1We need to let Ray-Ban and Oakley know how we feel about them providing the frames.
This sucks bc it sucks, but also because glasses like these have been a huge help for the blind. We just want to be able to find a particular doorway or what we just dropped or check the mail quickly without whipping out a phone or scanner. Am I about to open a can of peaches or jalapeños?
jben1990.bsky.social1I feel like "ok, if that's what they're for, than you won't mind us heavily restricting (or outright banning) these things for people who *aren't* blind, right?" Is the correct response here.p
JFC we told you. Apparently "pervert glasses" isn't getting the job done, and we need a stronger/catchier term to help make these fucking things socially unacceptable again; I think we gotta bring back "Glassholes" too.
Molotov Cockatiel Games (Bill)3Saw “specsual predator” recently and thought that was accurate.
Nick SomethingGreek2If you see vids of a girl smacking the glasses off their face as the last thing recorded before they’re rendered inoperable…..No you didn’t and it must be AI 😉
Ashley Shew1Ray-Bandits Panopti-Cons Four-eyed Spies Evil Mr Peanuts
'Please stop calling our fun new toys which are routinely used to sexually harass children at school "Pervert Glasses"!'
Greg Gabrielse 2It is no shock that teen boys would do this. This is not excusing the behavior, it is a call for those who have boys to teach them to be respectful, and "boys will be boys" should be on the ash heap.
John MacLeod1“Please stop calling me and people like me, who invent technology & algorithms to directly undermine people’s cognitive abilities, create CSAM, and feed society’s worst behaviours, ‘predatory’.”
James1that’s not fair, not all perverts have got theirs yet
Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater)1Spray paint as an accessory?
Why are schools even allowing them? Schools are the first place that Meta pervert glasses should be banned from.
Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤2There is no reason to own them if you're not using them to record things. Frankly, I would prefer that kids stay home rather than wear these to school. Even if "they are their only pair of glasses". It's a camcorder strapped to their face, and it should be treated as such.
coh+1Is'nt that the climax of Zuckerberg's highschool vision of poaching girls?
