But I thought the surveillance state was good for us? Why, do the police have something to hide?

Nothing to hide - nothing to fear, right officer?

surveillance for thee, privacy for me. typical.

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

So it's okay for crooked fuckers to use flock cameras to stalk women but it's not ok for us to record you using smart glasses?

How about a compromise? You shove the cameras up your ass, and we also get rid of the perv glasses because fuck that.

"If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide." Isn't that the mantra of the police and secret services everywhere when they demand more intrusive snooping rights?

So what do they do wrong that they suddenly have something to hide?

Well well well how the turntables

Police have things to hide??

/s

Remember when body cams were meant to protect the police from accused wrongdoing?

Now anytime a body cam is not worn or activated it means the cops are planning to or are actively engaging in hurting someone.

“The ability to covertly record inside a law enforcement or detention facility, could result in a security risk if proprietary information about cell layouts, camera placements, or officer patrol/site protection routines are released,” the memo read.

what a load of absolute shit. the devices could open them up to the legal consequences of their illegal actions and abuse.

shame meta is focused on equipping the perverts and creeps instead of the blind and exposing corruption and abuse.

One of the few things they’d be good for

I've said it before, but if these things weren't hooked up to a corporate cloud they would be great for sousveillance of the police and other authorities.

There're some out there from other manufacturers that have open source firmware, unfortunately they aren't cheap.

Honestly a valid concern for anybody

Huh, finally a use for Meta smart glasses I can get behind.

If that's what it takes to get regulation for them I suppose.

That’s why they’re worried about them??…. That’s a huge ass obvious red flag if we’ve ever seen one

That story reads exactly how I would draft a Meta PR campaign to diffuse opposition to those surveillance glasses.

Don’t worry, The Zuck will just add a feature to automatically blur cops and ICE agents

For recording in cells, the glasses would be caught by the regular scanners used at various security boundaries including upon entry to custody, at least every time I've been detained. Is that not normal in the US?

I mean, critical support to Meta I guess. They finally figured out a real use case for their glasses. Albeit a very limited one because there's already hidden cameras people can wear on their body, all of which are easily detectable when they search you before chucking you into a cell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox

This comment section should be ... interesting

META being used for good? IDK, sounds far fetched...

Oh, no. That's terrible. Nobody should ever be recording the police........ It might catch them breaking a law or two /s

OMG, I LOL'd no cap

"secretly". They aren't exactly subtle.

Who would have thought there might be unintended uses of new technology? Just completely shocking.

Now just need to wait 2 years for the Chinese knockoff brands for $39.99 that can run open source software and we'll all be Snowden.

Oh no, that would be going tooo Farr...

Dead ass I wish the worse for many in power.

Nice try, Meta!