Return of the glassholes.
As a former glasshole, I’m being retraumatized all over again.
Google Glass did nothing wrong!
Their crime was being 13 years early. They had a post-privacy business model in an environment where people still had a choice.
Their crime was that Glass was useless. The voice recognition barely worked.
Yeah severely underpowered and overpromised.
Nah, nobody gave a shit about privacy back then, just like they don’t give a shit about it today. The problem was just that most people “understood” what spy glasses were because they’d seen them in movies, and the media just stoked the flames of controversy because it led to easy clicks.
Walking into a public bathroom with glasses like that on your face seems creepier than walking in with a phone in your hand, even though it’s much easier to discretely record with the phone (and in much higher quality).
Although Meta’s case is different. If I see someone with those glasses on, I may give the individual the benefit of the doubt and trust that they’re not recording me, but I sure as shit am not giving Meta the benefit of the doubt and trusting that they’re not going to record without the user’s knowledge/consent. They wouldn’t let a chance to capture free data pass them by.
Cancel the appointment right on the spot and tell them it’s the glasses.
Baffling that the chain did not immediately respond with “we introduced new rules requiring all our stores not to allow smart glasses or other recording devices in their treatment rooms”. Seems so obvious, yet we see nothing like that in the article.
Fucking lady still went through with it and I bet money it recorded everything. I bet meta powers them on even if you don’t opt in. Just like when our phonrs turn on record even if we don’t want them to.
I bet meta powers them on even if you don’t opt in
Unlikely - the battery wouldn’t last long enough. Also it would be at least a product-ending event if it ever got out. Clearly not worth the risk.
Sure, it may not last long enough for a video, but what if it just wanted to click some low-res pictures at some interval?
And then using data from that, decide when to take a high-res one?It’s just training it’s now AI model for VagId
Out of all the ways to secretly record, that has to be one of the dumbest and most conspicuous ones. It’s fake nose and glasses from the dollar store level stupid.
