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Dutch retailer pulls Meta glasses as hundreds of women reportedly filmed (cybernews.com)
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Another win for privacy <3

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[–] 8 points 3 days ago (9 children)

There are few legitimate use cases for smart glasses with cameras tho - it’s very helpful for visually impaired people. Really sad too see such things overshadowed by sea of perverts.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Seriously. I'm working as a substitute teacher right now. It would be amazing if I could pop on a pair of smart glasses and have some limited augmented reality capabilities. I would love to look across a classroom and see the names of all the students floating about their head. Maybe with some key notes (like IEP restrictions, notes from the teacher, etc.)

    But I've never seen this actually implemented by any of the companies pushing these.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    So this would work with facial recognition and sharing the complete school database with the manufacturer, in this case meta, including attendance and any learning disabilities?

    It does sound convenient but the privacy trade-off is never worth it imo. None of these companies seem to be developing something that runs locally, they’re all about being “connected”.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    See and I go the other way. Assuming everything is up front this would be amazing for a teacher based on how OP explained it.

    That said, to your point, none of this would even be a discussion if we paid teachers properly and staffed schools adequately.

    We are moaning about a technical solution to a problem that already has a solution that has been solved for decades but collectively we choose to ignore that solution because education is a cost centre.

    I'll leave the classic Matt Damon bitching about underpaid teachers.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/nvVYPZpjzno

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    When I'd see that stuff in scifi years ago I thought it was cool, but also wondered how secure it actually would be to have electronics that is capable of seeing what you see all the time.

    And of course that answered in SciFi with that stuff getting hacked from time to time.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Did they actually launch them with helpful technology in that vein? That is news to me!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I mean, those are a thing that can describe one’s surroundings and objects around them or assist in handling certain objects. And for people with impaired hearing - subtitles for what people around say can be displayed.

    These are life changing technologies for some disabled people, but alas - we’ve got the least privacy-concerned company to spearhead the progress in this regard.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Well, on the bright side, that sounds like something that could be preserved into a device that makes it a lot more obvious when it's working, or without the recording features at all. And hopefully we get stuff like that and soon!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    On the flip side with this being a device that is more in the realm of persistent audio and visual recording I can't help but think this type of wearable will lead to every interaction being recorded and transcribed. And sounds like some suped Big Brother network if it becomes ubiquitous of every single person being a camera.

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