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Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses (www.brusselstimes.com)
submitted 4 months ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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“Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.”

“A small LED light is designed to indicate when recording is taking place, but RTBF's investigators found that tutorials explaining how to conceal the indicator are abundant and easily accessible online.”

Sometimes I have a hard time deciding who I despise more, parasite Mark Zuckerberg or its witless hosts who keep using its products—yes, Zuck's pronoun is it. Ban Ray-Ban, for frick's sake.

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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Difference being: we're kind of powerless against government surveillance high up on a fence, but we can sanction the class traitor glassholes with an accidental elbow to the glasses and a clumsy step on them.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Seems like you’re giving a pass to government and corpos, while assaulting fellow citizens.

    I intend on getting whatever glasses eventually come out with an AR layer involved, camera or not. Doesn’t mean I’ll be constantly recording. In fact I’d likely almost never record anything.

    And apparently that means I deserve an elbow to the face.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    No, I am not giving a pass to government and corpos. But people recording others in public are henchmen of the very same fascist governments and yes, you deserve an elbow to the face if you record ANYONE (in more detail than within a large group of pedestrians) in public EVER without their explicit consent. Because you are - at least in civilized countries - violating privacy laws with the expectation that no one will sue you for it.

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  • [+] -8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You’ll find that in almost every civilised country recording in public is 100% allowed. It’s what you do with the footage that has restrictions and laws around it.

    Privacy in public is not a thing. They’re literally antonyms.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    is being done != is being allowed. don't film people without explicit consent, or you deserve whatever happens to you as a consequence.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago*

    Sorry but the law is the law, and in public places you can and will be filmed and they don’t need your explicit consent. Which countries do you think it is illegal to film people in public places without explicit consent?

    If you don’t like it, don’t go out in public. Also don’t pretend like anyone here is going to do anything to anyone wearing them lol. Everyone is a hero behind their keyboard. There would be no consequences.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    For AR you need to be recording. If you are recording, it is being sent to Facebook servers. You accepted Facebook's terms and conditions, not me.

    If you don't want to be punched, you should advocate for laws that make the glasshole glasses ugly through non-avoidable methods of detecting if the glasses are recording.

    For example by requiring every glass hole glass to have a physical cover that physically covers the view of the camera, and it should be a bright color to easily see if it is covering the camera or not. The contour of the camera should be painted with an equally bright color, contrasting highly with the cover. So you can easily see if the cover is covering it completely.

    A led that turns on when recording is not enough, it's very easy to remove a led from a device.

    If you want to not use glass hole glasses for evil, you should want it to be mandatory for other people to see if you're using it for evil or not.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    AR could never work by sending a recording to an external server. At least not with available technology. And in fact, you wouldn’t necessarily need to even have image data, lidar would suffice. All handled on device.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Calculating the AR locally doesn't mean that you won't be sending the recording to Facebook.

    They don't collect data because it is necessary for the technology they use. They collect data because they sell it.

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