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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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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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[–] 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.