Private #MassSurveillance and the virtual end of #Privacy in public spaces

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Why this matters:

"#Meta and #RayBan’s new #AIglasses can be used to secretly record women and young people for sexual reasons,” the #EHE spokesperson continued in their statement to #Hyperallergic. “Simply put, that’s abuse.” The chasm between legality and ethics continues to widen as the use of smart glasses poses additional risks at sites of expected privacy, including hospitals, restrooms,...

Private #MassSurveillance and the virtual end of #Privacy in public spaces

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...fitness spaces, locker rooms, and private businesses. In 2024, 👉#Harvard researchers were able to run facial recognition software on recorded footage from #Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses to successfully locate the names, addresses, and other personal information of passersby from public databases. 👈 Morality aside, privacy law also hasn’t kept up... "

hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-lo…

Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign

“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon.

^{Rhea Nayyar (Hyperallergic)}

@HistoPol
There's a campaign against these glasses, who have a great sticker, but also a good discussion on proper use cases for people with visual impairments. See:

social.coop/@smallcircles/1169…

🫧 Social coding commons

2026-07-13 12:35:22

Dutch campaign calls them "Gluurbrillen", voyeur glasses.. banray.eu/en

cc @StopdeGluurbril

There's a great sticker. It can be hung in official places and look official, not an activist sticker someone puts there that quickly gets removed.

BanRay.eu — Your face is not inventory

Meta sold seven million pairs of camera glasses. The people being filmed never consented. Ban them.

^banray.eu

@smallcircles

Thanks for pointing this out to me.

I just posted a comment:

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1169…

@vowe

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

2026-07-16 14:17:41

#Meta #RayBan #Surveillance #Privacy

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I can see your point, Elena, the glasses are but a tool. (Also, I've worked with people with disabilities.)
So is a handgun, regarding which people in most countries think that it's distribution to people should be minimized.

Also, many people have concerns even about #SecurityCameras in public spaces with security issues.

So, I'd like to throw in a couple of discussion points for all:

@VeilleOff