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Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 days ago by FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Story about low priced Anko branded competitor to Meta smart glasses. The story author calls out that despite Meta's attempts to prevent recording if the LED is covered, it is easy to get around the block. I think it's good for mainstream press to say it, so more ppl realize. They also call out that human moderators at Meta review their smart glasses footage. Inc videos of people having sex or using the toilet.

IDK if public backlash will nix the market for these, or if opposition will dry up and in 10 more years they will be mainstream tech like smartphones are today. I could see it going either way TBH.

It scares me that one of those timelines leads to a hellscape worse than the one we already have.

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[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I gotta say some of my bullshit on here again tbqh, I'm not afraid of the surveillance state I'm afraid of capitalist surveillance. You already have one, but people are in denial about it. Stuff like this will harden the situation & it will be undeniable. Maybe it's actually not so bad to constantly be aware of your every move, to be aware that you're being scrutinized by the Epstein class. That time is running out. That was true already. Now you have some dumb fuck with stalker glasses to embody it. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera,

Go watch Southland Tales and tell me you don't just live in that environment in Australia

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have hyper vigilance from cptsd and it's actually really taxing to try and be fully aware of everyone, everything and yourself. I need like 10 hours of sleep because of how tired my brain gets. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

actually really taxing to try and be fully aware of everyone, everything and yourself

Sorry you gotta deal with that level of stress.

The fucked up thing, is it just keeps getting worse. In-store cameras are bad enough. But at least there, the footage will prob never hit the tiktok circuit. When private citizens buy their own mass surveilence, and turn everything into social media content, that just keeps on growing. There are entire sites built around that form of content.

I heard about some poor guy in the UK. Got detained for "acting suspiciously" since he was avoiding London's cameras. Police stopped him and compelled a photograph for their facial ID. He never did anything wrong! Zero criminal record. Guy just didn't enjoy being on camera. Which they then forced him to be.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's horrible. I hate that it's happening everywhere :(

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Yah. TBH, I think it was inevitable once we hit an inflection point in the tech v. price curve.

In the 1960's, maybe the CIA could build a one off mechanical spy insect. But that was never gonna be a thing at consumer scale. Today, couple hundred dollars, euros, pounds, and every Joe Sixpack can wield surveilence tech 50 times better than the top three letter agencies could back then.

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Well shit if it helps you relax after reading that loony rant from the other day, there are some weird upsides to these gizmos and silicon valley isn't the world leader in them. think about the benefits of instantaneous translation glasses!! all this augmented reality shit is about projecting unreality, but that's not what's going to make a difference imo. i dont need fucking entertainment i need THE VISION

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I am recorded on no less than 6 cameras* on my commute home. It is likely the only part of my commute not completely filmed is the 100 or so yards from my subway stop to front door.

We have had ubiquitous surveillance for decades now. I refuse to believe meta glasses is going to be the straw that breaks the camels back.

*actual number is far higher.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The plan here is to feed those videos to AI training sets. The Internet has been scraped, now they want to scrape reality.

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Things like Pokemon Go has already been doing that

[–] Paularhion@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes. Might depend on the région. For instance an average London commute is recorded by 300 CCTV.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

The important word is closed circuit. Deleted every 31 days, by law.

Meta video is not deleted.