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Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have earned the nickname "pervert glasses" — and a journalist's firsthand account reveals exactly why. Wearing them didn't just feel creepy; it made her start thinking like one. I break down the real surveillance threat these glasses pose, Meta's data exploitation playbook, and what we can actually do about it.

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago

was this not the case with google glasses last decade.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

no, because that was shitty resolution from an absolutely tiny camera. it should have set a standard but was so distinctly obvious externally and useless for the task that it didn't trigger the response I guess.

this shit absolutely can 'pass' and should be banned posthaste.

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Had Google had access to the camera sensors and the smaller, more powerful SOCs we have today, they absolutely would have produced exactly what Meta did.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

most def, but it wasn't and they didn't. hence the shitty comparison.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Google is all shades of terrible when it comes to privacy invasion, and they will stop at very little to get their grubby mitts on your personal data. But even they realized the perv glasses weren't good publicity and pulled the plug. Hell, I remember Google Glasses wearers getting their teeth knocked in when they walked into public places.

Zuckerberg and Facebook don't even rise to this minimal level of corporate image self-preservation: they just want the data, decency be damned.

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