Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses
Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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HappyFrog
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
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WhiteOakBayou
in reply to Numinous_Ylem • • •Numinous_Ylem
in reply to WhiteOakBayou • • •I think you're unfortunately right on that point. There's probably a higher chance of those types of devices being outlawed than Meta glasses and similar products being outlawed, knowing how our legal systems love to defer to corporations.
Theres also the whole deal with being able to legally film and photograph in a public space, which I support for sure, but this is very much not the same as that when a whole team of people overseas are reviewing everything along with AI analysing it, and with these glasses still operating in not-public spaces. Even the act of having to pull out a phone and physically hold it up to film is a small protection of privacy, because at least others can recognize that that person is filming. The passive always-recording nature of these glasses is truly frightening.
At least they are chunky and kinda stupid looking enough to be recognizable.... for now. It will be scary when there are dozens or hundreds of variations that look no different than any style of regular glasses.
Willoughby
in reply to WhiteOakBayou • • •Also wearing them identifies you as "a person wearing anti-spyware" glasses.
It's like not having a Facebook account, your shadow shows everyone you aren't, leaving the only person you could be.
Art3mis
in reply to Willoughby • • •Willoughby
in reply to Art3mis • • •In your defense, they aren't tracking your every move in pseudo-real time and tracking every app they can get their code into inside your phone.
but dude needs to buy a lawnmower and a tv used every now and then, so the bookmark stays. That shit isn't on my phone tho.
Art3mis
in reply to Willoughby • • •IndigoGolem
in reply to Numinous_Ylem • • •I wonder what would be the power consumption of a device that sits on your head and emits IR light in all directions until you turn it off, instead of just over your eyes. Similar to how microphone blockers work.
What would jewelry and hats do about cameras?
Numinous_Ylem
in reply to IndigoGolem • • •The idea being that anything near the face emitting enough IR could potentially affect the meta glasses and obscure your face. I think IR LEDs draw less power than red LEDs but dont quote me Im not an engineer.
hackaday.com/2020/02/28/using-…
Using IR LEDs To Hide In Plain Sight
Hackadaysobchak
in reply to Numinous_Ylem • • •doingthestuff
in reply to Willoughby • • •Numinous_Ylem
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Frankly humanity does not need this invention one bit.
It may have legitmately sounded interesting and futuristic to some people a decade ago, but with the way tech companies are trending this type of tech will become an absolute surveillance and privacy nightmare. I mean it aleady is really, but it will get so so much worse.
Regulate and legislate these into oblivion. At the very least tech companies need to be punished financially for trying to speed run dystopia but I fear we're already sliding down that slope and it's too late
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FineCoatMummy
in reply to Numinous_Ylem • • •Yah. Unfortunately, we've got it though. :( :( :(
People I know, some friends, they are completely oblivious to how much it will surveillance them. Or how much Meta already does, in other ways. "I don't care, I'm not doing anything wrong".
Constant surveillance erodes a society. It erodes democracy.
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in reply to Numinous_Ylem • • •Genies out of the bottle now man.
Look forward to an arms race and eventually a cold war. This is our generations nuke.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •God I wish they'd stop putting cameras in these and just make a nice pair of prescription glasses with good integrated headphones, a heads of display, and some basic touch controls on the stem.
I would genuinely enjoy this for easy listening and maps.
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in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •Ecco the dolphin
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •They need someone to review and tag the recorded footage to train AI models.
No moment is private when wearing these glasses. I'm glad they haven't caught on where I live.
chicken
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •From another article I read about this, seems like it involves a lot of drawing precise boxes around people and objects, stuff like that. Terminators gotta learn their sex moves from somewhere.
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in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •Read the article??
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Oh man! A friend just sent me this earlier today, I completely forgot to sign, but seeing this reminded me! Sharing the love.
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Ban Meta glasses (Ray-Ban) from public and private use
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in reply to doingthestuff • • •So? Even generating awareness about this nonsense is a +1 to society.
Cute comment tho.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •So you're telling me that the creepy motherfuckers who would wear something like this around in public do creepy things?
Never would have guessed that. 🤔
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