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[–] 170 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I found this morsel particularly poignant:

"Ironically, Meta expected rights groups to be too busy to step in, given the disastrous geopolitical climate.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the document reads, as quoted by the NYT."

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

    That's particularly evil. No matter what their lame rationalizations will be, this is how we know that they created this tech in bad faith, and they intend to use it in bad faith.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago

    Yup. It’s also an admission that they know they are in the wrong and will cause harm to people, but don’t care. A lot of these companies try to pull the “we didn’t consider these concerns; we need to do more research” shit when they get called out on it, but this makes it blatantly obvious that’s bullshit

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  • [–] 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    And I used to think the "secret dastardly plan diary" -files scattered around in Resident Evil and the like were silly B-movie stuff that obviously would not be written down in the real world.

    But no, they're assigned in company strategy meetings and politicians just hit their sex slave supplier on Gmail with "Heya yo haave sum tasty kiids to fuck in Cali thiss wekend?"

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    [–] 135 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Also, it will introduce: snitchonomics.

    Mass surveillance is here, but what if you could be an annoying little shit in the local community? Introducing: snitchonomics. Go around your neighborhood, discover discrepancies, automate your snitching and become a toadie for the local commissars.

    Meta: the Nazis would have loved us.

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    [–] 60 points 5 months ago (22 children)

    Get ahead of the curve and make these illegal.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (11 children)

    The problem with that is, how do we make glasses like these illegal without also making any type of filming in public illegal?

    A good start would be for more states to adopt wiretapping laws with two-party consent models. Only 11 states have these on the books currently.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    I think hidden cameras are already illegal in some places, no?

    Like you can't film in a bathroom, so wouldn't they be required to take these glasses off before walking in?

    Just expand that so no secret cameras can be used, or.cameras disguised as every day objects like pens and glasses.

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    [–] 41 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Not like meta has a long history of ignoring obvious, enormous problems theyre causing that experts keep pleading with them to take seriously. Like in Myanmar. Where it has killed an enormous number of people and the death toll keeps rising.

    I'm sure they'll do something this time

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Like in Myanmar

    It was horrific, what hapened there with Facebook. Viral rumors would spread, the Rohingya were putting sterilization pills into the food supply. People would believe it. Then they would torture or kill those the rumors were about. They would burn down their businesses and homes. There were mass scale murder and rape, whole viliages burned. Because Facebook had displaced local news. What was on Facebook became the reality for so many people. It became an anti-Rohingya echo chamber, the hate would feed on itself.

    I think this effect is playing out in western democracies today. Slower, because the US, Canada, or Europe altogether, are much larger than Myanmar. The big ship turns slower than the small. But the same dynamics are here. Viral social media posts make their own twisted "reality". It's not just Facebook, neither. It's lots of others too.

    I don't know how to stop it.

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

    Gonna make Bluetooth scramblers real popular

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    Meta: "That's the point!"

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Please reach out to your family and urge them to stop using Facebook (or worse, any form of reels) if they still do. The onus is on the informed now. It’s not enough to just ask the tech barons to stop, we also need to divert their support.

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    [–] 26 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    They know. They consider it a sell-able feature.

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    slapping a spy device from their face is self defense, not a crime

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Just need to associate ray bans with creeps moving forward. If they are too far away to tell, just assume it's a fucking weirdo in Meta glasses. Forever associate the brand with creepy weirdos, and maybe they'll rethink their strategy.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (10 children)

    Balaclavas will be in fashion

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

    stones in my fucking shoes it is then.

    Everybody says this... but I'm afraid it won't help or for very long. Gate recog algos measures physical characteristics. Things that are not changed by a shoe stone, like the length of your femur and tibia. The way your hips move as your leg does. Ratio of hip width to other measures. Things things are more fingerprint-ish like that.

    It's a lot like... how facial recog looks at distances between your pupils. Or the exact position of your cheekbones and structure of the face. Making it hard to fool in some ways.

    It can all be fooled to a degree. Anyway it's all probabilities. Maybe it works 95% and fails 5% or w/e, but that's "good enough" for advertizers and data brokers.

    It's all just an exhausting uphill battle :(

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    I was really interested in who the pervert experts were, but it turns out it was just human rights groups.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    "Pervert Glasses" = AI glasses

    (For doomscrollers who don't read the articles)

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    [–] 8 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    so like, i think the tech is cool. i can't really think of a good use case for it though. that's the thing.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    When google glass first debuted, I was thinking how much easier my job could be if I could have the faces of the people authorized to enter in that device to make admission easier (there were over 300 faces to remember that didn't have to use their issued ID due to position), as in, when a person approaches if they were in my "PRIVATE ON DEVICE" database their access card would display on my screen. Never got one, thankfully. This new tech would be great for this except I doubt that there would be an offline mode, so I see no use case for this unless you want to assist in the tracking of people for Meta.

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