A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

  • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I’m not at all a fan of being recorded in public but all of your examples…

    • identifying colors
    • recognizing faces
    • real-time computing

    These are situations in which the camera in the glasses is technically being accessed, which in software means something is analyzing the feed from the camera. If it is generating any output anywhere, even just visually for the user, it is recording in my mind. It may not be storing video, but it might face match and store a list of every recognized face it saw on the subway. There is no way for the OS to reasonably know what the feed is being used for unless it has exclusive control over the camera feed… and I sure as fuck aren’t going to trust the smart glasses manufacturer to be honest about what it is doing with the camera feed…

    So basically, if the camera is in use at all, an indicator light should be on.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      1·
      20 hours ago

      Assuming the system ecosystem is locked down, one could conceivably indicate only for retained camera data. App has camera permission but no internet and no storage premission, ok.

      Of course, realistically speaking they kind of tried that with camera modules having their indicators OS controlled, and the practical reality is that malicious use could independently operate the camera from the LED and so the lesson learned was to keep it simple and have the LED control inexorably linked to camera activation at the module level without any sophisticated OS control possible.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      You’re correct. I should have worded it better. I meant “Stored” rather than recorded. Much like streaming a video has a temp file in your hard-drive while you’re watching the stream, but which ceases to exist after a certain amount of time to prevent you from pirating the content by saving a copy.

      Glasses should operate much the same way (if at all…as I said…I’d still prefer the not at all option.)

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        2·
        20 hours ago

        Think the issue is, practically speaking, we don’t have a good track record of modeling precisely where the camera feed goes to decide if it is stored or not. Mobile OSes do present a more sophisticated permission structure that gets closer, but things are still too flexible to really comfortably assure that nothing that was a party to the feed didn’t somehow store it.

    • logging_strict@programming.dev
      12·
      1 day ago

      i disagree with your sexual fixation on tiny LEDs. That was a dangerous situation warranting mitigation strategies including video recording.