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New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses (www.politico.eu)

submitted 13 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I was really pumped for smart glasses. I do a lot of my learning while I walk and adding a small video window in the corner of my vision would really help with some of what I'm learning.

Sucks that it turned into what it is..

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 1 hour ago

You don't need smart glasses for that. You don't need a camera, internet connection, face recognition or AI to have a small video window in your glasses.

Unfortunately it's like with smart watches. You can't get a watch that's just a display with some API. They all need to include HR monitors and GPS for some reason.

[–] TheDuke 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This is good, but it's already out of control. If you walk past a parked Tesla, just for example, you'll be filmed. If you walk past any public building, you'll be filmed. Public place? Damn right, filmed. As soon as you step out of your house, you're recorded. And despite all the promises made, I bet much more data lands on some obscure server farms or AI Data centers, than they exclaim.

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The tech, if selfhosted and open, would be great. But as it stands, it would be better off banned.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 hours ago

People most worry about the hidden cameras and being filmed without noticing and consent. The tech being open wouldn't change that, even though I agree that an open platform would be awesome.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 48 points 12 hours ago

The battery law is "so broad and so restrictive that it prevents the sale of this wonderful, jointly developed, U.S.-European product from being sold in the European Union..."

No. Meta chose to design e-waste.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 28 points 13 hours ago

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 hours ago

Based EU

[+] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -20 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Hypothetical question: if I invented glasses that told me when people were lying, would they be accepted or would there be an angry uprising to ban them?

edit: reminder - clicking an arrow is not an answer, it means you don't have one.

edit: why the douchevotes and silence on this? The only responder just deflected the question. It seems to me that taking lying out of human interaction would be a plus. Isn't the idea at least interesting?

[–] CovertOperative@piefed.zip 1 points 6 minutes ago

Isn't the idea at least interesting?

Sure, if you're asking what to write in your next fantasy novel. This topic is about reality.

[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Would depend how they work, but assuming we're using conventional technology and not some magic doohickey that can 100% verify the truth, then you'd probably just get shunned by your peers. Technology cannot accurately verify whether someone is lying unless it's about an objective fact, and even then, its database may be out of date when someone's informing you of a new discovery. If you're using an LLM, then it may just make random shit up. And if you're using a corporate LLM, then you're transmitting everything you see and hear to some corporation, where they may keep that data for whatever they please, simply so you can have a popup that tells you either a lie itself, or something you should be able to surmise by yourself. You're not a corporation, so likely people wouldn't revolt against the glasses like they do against Facebook's, they'd just stop talking to you.

[+] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm talking about detecting dishonest intent, not fact checking.

[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

As am I. Technology cannot accurately discern intent. Fact checking is the easiest way to do that, and only applies to objective truths. Outside of fact checking, it's completely guessing, and wouldn't be reliable enough to be useful to anyone.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 12 hours ago

https://www.androidauthority.com/p-3674350/