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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)
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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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[–] [S] 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

actually really taxing to try and be fully aware of everyone, everything and yourself

Sorry you gotta deal with that level of stress.

The fucked up thing, is it just keeps getting worse. In-store cameras are bad enough. But at least there, the footage will prob never hit the tiktok circuit. When private citizens buy their own mass surveilence, and turn everything into social media content, that just keeps on growing. There are entire sites built around that form of content.

I heard about some poor guy in the UK. Got detained for "acting suspiciously" since he was avoiding London's cameras. Police stopped him and compelled a photograph for their facial ID. He never did anything wrong! Zero criminal record. Guy just didn't enjoy being on camera. Which they then forced him to be.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That's horrible. I hate that it's happening everywhere :(

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 months 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.

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