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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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[–] 16 points 4 months ago (11 children)

If only people had said "no thanks, I'm good" when Fakebook rolled out. Of course something else equally as shitty would have probably taken its place.

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

    If only people would just stop fucking using it. It's still a choice to use it.

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

    I quit facebook about 15 years ago. I still have people trying to share facebook links with me or suggesting I make a fake account for whatever bullshit reason they think I need one. Even reasonable and well-educated people in my life don't seem to understand the purpose of not having facebook is not having fucking facebook.

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

    Hindsight is 20/20 but only few, if any, expected how big of a giant piece of shit Facebook will become and especially its founder. Most people thought it is just another fad, and expected it will go the way of most other social media sites at the time such as Friendster, Bebo and MySpace.

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

    Zuck was always a giant piece of shit. On discussing the information its first users' willingness to give personal details to The Face Book back at (?) Harvard (?) he said: "... They just send it to me. They trust me. The dumb fucks."

    He was mask-off from the beginning. We're (society, not addressing anyone individually) just really blind to threats when distracted by shiny, noisy crap.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Most people would not have known about what Zuck in the earlier years of Facebook. Heck, even to this day, either most people still don't know or don't care. Facebook is still extremely popular in developing countries because the site is free regardless of whether or not you have a mobile internet data. But they don't realise they are being manipulated by the social media to give them free information and to vote a certain way in elections that is against their own interest.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    You forget this is, by definition, before Facebook. It’s also before any social media became popular. People had never heard the name Zuckerberg, let alone heard what he was like. And people had not had to deal with this type of predatory company. Google was still “don’t be devil”, and Microsoft was a completely different type of predator - one asking for money, not giving things for free.

    As others have said: hindsight is easy, but this was a very different time.

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

    It's kind of like survivorship bias: The ones who rise to the very top must be the most ruthless and biggest pieces of shit. It's like taking 20 trials to rise to the top, and to succeed each trial fucking others over and only concerning yourself with your advancement is beneficial. It only leaves the worst.

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