My first time seeing anything about the meta Rayban glasses was some guy sexually harassing my friend at work as a “prank video.” He used the glasses as a secret recording device then posted it on facebook.
Don't worry, he's just making videos to jerk off to later.
I recently asked a friend to remove their meta glasses while we were out to eat. It was awkward for a moment but they were understanding, and we had a good talk about privacy and tech after.
If any of my friends showed up with facebook glasses, they would be ridiculed to the point of them either getting rid of them or us no longer being friends.
I'm not here for your entertainment, or whatever you're going to use that footage for. That's your deal, not mine. Take them off, or not coming in the house.
Only an absolute tool would wear that crap.
Let me introduce you to my friend who thinks Fucker Carlson has good ideas, and that Musky is Iron man.
His glasses arrive tomorrow.
There should be a law brought in so that any glasses fitted with cameras/microphones have to be clearly labeled (as in etched so it cant be removed) with a warning along the front face of the glasses and also make it to they can only be bright obnoxious high visibility colours like neon green/orange.
Lets see how "fashionable" they are when they make you look like a member of LMFAO.
The meta glasses supposedly are designed with a bright led on the front that comes on when the camera or microphone is recording.
Edit: I had forgotten when I wrote this that there are companies already offering services where you can send in your meta glasses and they claim they will somehow disable/bypass the LED indicator.
Yeah and people put little pieces of black tape over it that blends in with the black sunglasses and render that LED meaningless.
I don't think that works anymore because I believe the LED is also a sensor that when covered (no light in) prevents recording.
And that doesn't work because you can place your hand over the camera which will trick the glasses into thinking you are in the dark which will allow you to start recording, then you just take your hand away.
Youtube is full of videos that show people how to circumvent the LED on the these glasses. Its not rocket science.
You don’t get it. The smart glasses don’t matter, man. The panopticon’s already built. What do you think the AI bubble is all about? Do you really believe $35 trillion’s in play over a bullshit generator that synthesizes pornography and tells you to kill yourself? All that compute is needed to integrate the data from the Flock cameras, the smart phones, the smart homes. It’s all connected, man, or it soon will be. Big Brother is here. You’ll never go unobserved, unrecorded, again.
People used to call me a creep whenever I raised concerns about mass surveillance. Like, obviously if I wasn't okay with that then I must have been planning something nasty, right?
Well this is precisely the scenario I was trying to warn about, and it's far nastier than anything I could have possibly done, even if that were my intention...
This feels like it's supposed to be tongue in cheek, but it's too close to reality tbh.
I wrote it humorously, but I’m only about 5% joking. Sure looks to me like Minority Report’s about to come true, only the precogs will be called Claude, Grok, and GPT, and they’ll first be tasked with finding Mexicans rather than murderers.
Fully automated drab earth fascism is here, baby.
Written in jest and yet using CV at scale on GPUs initially used for LLMs make sense.
Yet... why do so? As I wrote just minutes ago in https://lemmy.ml/post/41546700/23280257 there is already very high quality signal that requires nearly no compute : your wireless trace. Google/Apple and your mobile provider or ISP and thus the government hosting it already know 24/7 where you are, how active you are, etc solely from your 5G/4G signal. Well OK for activity it's with the IMU but the point is this is basically computationally free.
You move around,
compare this with
this is ridiculously expensive to run. I'm not saying it can't be done (it's been done and it's not hard to setup) but... WHY would one do so when the first setup works more reliably and is orders of magnitude cheaper?
Obviously both can be combined but also both can be bypassed conveniently and extremely cheaply (leave your phone home, wear sunglasses and a hygiene mask) so even though a realistic scenario I'd argue it's not rational to not just rely on what already works for the vast majority of situations.
Tracking phones only does that. And Flock’s mostly just a license plate reader, so far. Those sorts of things are great if you’re a cop stalking your ex-wife, but are nearly useless if you’re trying to track down a masked man that shot the CEO of an insurance company then fled on a bicycle.
Glasshole indeed!
This is the next logical iteration of "if you aren't doing anything wrong then you have no reason to be concerned with people filming you without your knowledge/consent!"
It was never a good argument, but too many people seemed to believe it and now we're here...
Take away their bathroom door and their houses front door. Nothing to hide right?
If they don't have anything to hide, then maybe they'll consent to an unwarranted search. Who needs constitutional rights when you have nothing to hide? /s
What an absolute Stacy, massive respect
The law should be that the recording can only be used in private, by the owner of the device, not a company. If anyone shares the imagery or steals it, they should be subject to some kind of day-fine.
That would be nice.
That presumes the law works for you.
The police state loves that they can just buy the data the big tech companies are happily farming. No warrants, no judges, no pesky civil rights to get in the way. Just full time monitoring.
So true, well said and thx for saying it
I mean I get it. Weird to have a private company walking monitoring device that proudly does so so they can... Upload more to social media? It just sorta marks you as a hyper user and in the past we would have doubted those types even came outside.
Like I would pair it with the people who have only clothes and decorated with souvenir items from some random brand. It IS a weird look.
But unfortunately Flock exists and they are everywhere, spun up in seconds with cameras just running light and are even easily hacked. So like privacy wise its less a concern but personally.. Definitely not a fan and I get uncomfortable around them. I don't want to be used for content or actively sold by you just for being near.
I worry you might not have a representative audience here, as most of Lemmy is privacy-savvy. I guess most people just don't care, and if it keeps this way, it will be no different than smartphones (which are primarily spy devices most people carry around all the time and no one notices anymore).
Having seen what people now accept I would not want to bet that these will fail. Never thought people would be OK with Google using their phone to record their exact location 24/7 and save a searchable history of it for example but it seems that never was even controversial. Same with phones and other dedicated little devices that are always listening...
met up with a family member once who was wearing them and i immediately put on a face mask.
Are there any glasses that block smart glasses available? Like a localized jammer, or like shining an IR light at a camera, sort of thing?
One project that can help with this is the OUI-SPY, a small piece of open source hardware. The OUI-SPY runs on a cheap Arduino compatible chip called an ESP-32. There are multiple programs available for loading on the chip, such as “Flock You,” which allows people to detect Flock cameras and “Sky-Spy” to detect overhead drones. There’s also “BLE Detect,” which detects various Bluetooth signals including ones from Axon, Meta’s Ray-Bans that secretly record you, and more. It also has a mode commonly known as “fox hunting” to track down a specific device.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice
I would not stay nearby.
Imho this 'trend' will end:
Otherwise, it will probably become as 'normal' as messaging people sitting right next to you instead of, you know, talking to them.
I would get a very powerful magnet and ruin their devices. That works right? Otherwise I'll get a device that scrambles smart devices. Fuck Zuckerberg.
Magnets have no effect on flash memory or storage.
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