Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’

I remember when Google glasses came out, people got assaulted for wearing them

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-woman-says-she-was-attacked-for-wearing-google-glass/

Her Facebook post 💀

“OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some ---- Google Glass haters,” Slocum posted to Facebook.

"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg

Always good to keep in mind

A quick search on Amazon for "spy camera" finds a bunch of devices small enough to easily conceal inside clothing, built in to pens, and built in to watches. A search for "spy camera glasses" finds exactly that, and most of them are well under $300. We're already well into the era of being able to film everyone without them knowing.

Hidden cameras? They've got big ol fuckin cameras on them and apparently a red LED that lights up when in use lol. It'd be easier to secretly film someone by pretending you're texting on your phone. More ragebait.

I miss when CCTV was a world ending privacy concern. Its gotten so much worse in the last decade.

Incredibly funny to see the NY Post pretend that these glasses were just now "unveiled". This line of camera-equipped glasses has been around for 2 years now.

You're being filmed everywhere you go and you probably don't even know it.

Not a thing was learned from Google Glass huh? Alrighty then.

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Google glass 2.0

Just saying, hidden cameras have been a thing long before the internet was invented

I can't imagine being friends or even acquaintances with a person who would want to live stream their POV as a day to day activity.

NYPost is right wing trash.

NYPost.

come on now

‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’ Implying that we dont already have cameras always with us, and can perfectly do that.

My cyberpunk future of me using a full head mask every time I'm out in public is getting closer.

Black mirror vibes

Umm... what the hell is that thumbnail? https://i.imgur.com/0l2TAh3.png

Downvote all news corpse articles

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So this is just an ad, huh.

So will they just not work in 2 party consent states?

My home cameras had some update that required the LED to be on to indicate it was capturing video. This should be required on these products.

This might actually be useful for when the cops pull you over. Or if you get bad service in a shop you'll have a video of it.

People who don't understand that they already lost their privacy years ago: "GASP, this means someone could be recording me!"

I predict a uptick in assault and battery when people start recognizing these and get sick of them being used in public

Doesn't it have a 'recording' LED?

Remember the good ol' times when some guy stepped up in the cinema, stood in front of the audience, right when the movie was about to start:

"OK, Google!"

:-)

Now you might have an idea how a company making $0 is getting funded.

They must have a different approach if Google glasses tried the same thing and failed miserably.

Meh, I assume I’m always on camera anywhere I’m in public. I don’t like it and I really don’t want to be recorded. I’m also realistic and understand that public spaces are… well public.

I understand privacy fears because there’s nothing stopping someone in my private space from recording me now other than mutual respect and consent. If all it takes is the ease of use of some fashionable frames then it’s time to rethink your relationships.

This also applies to semi-private spaces. So think at the office or a cozy booth in a coffee shop. Assume all public places are recorded (because they often are) and establish boundaries within your relationships.

"...look like a regular pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers..."

So they're rebranded Ray-Ban Stories

This is what's coming on the AR headsets that will eventually replace phones. Soon, if you're in public, you WILL be recorded by someone without your knowledge, and probably you already have been. There is no privacy in public areas, get used to it.

On the one hand I'd kinda love a pair of glasses that told me peoples names as I'm always forgetting them, or gave me directions without having to look at the phone.

On the other hand.. humans.

Red led is no longer required?

Can't wait for pervs to start using these to get upskirt videos.

Sticking whole head under a lady

They don't really look "hidden" tbqh, the lenses are quite obvious.

I'm wondering if these could be useful to me as a prosopagnostic.

How very Meta

Out of the loop, do you need a facebook/meta account (if yes, how much info they requested) to use the glasses ?

On the one hand I can't remember the many people I see at work and would love heads-up display saying names, birthdays and reminding me what we spoke about.

On the other hand I don't like cameras recording my socially embarrassing actions in the first place, let alone tell people who I am. Like hell I want Zuck to know what stupid shit I said 4 years ago to that one person I won't see ever again.

Idk, I assume I'm being watched via CCTV at least wherever I go nowadays. This may be literally in your face, but still... these devices will become invisible and ubiquitous.

hidden camera prank videos are about to become a lot more rampant I think.

They should have used a photo from a webcam or old phone (or a noise filter) to better represent the nighttime quality of the tiny lenses. This one seems to have real DSLR depth of field. The interface is obviously fake, too. As a journalist, I would go the extra mile to take (or license) a shitty picture/video frame with motion blur (and no good-looking subject) and edit it into the supplied promotional material rather than plainly repost that obviously fake shit.

Ok, but why?

Like, why??

I'd like to run a test on these executives, put everyone with a camera pointing at them whenever they step outside let's see how long it will take to them hate their own proposal.

What about adding some strong infrareds on your hat?

Now I have a fear of being filmed while scratching my nuts.

Didn't Google already try this?

And in a future America, Joe Hillbilly shot Stylo Man, because Joe suspected Stylo to spy on him with his funny looking (but otherwise totally ordinary) glasses.

Remember when Transmetropolitan made this seem cool

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stylish

Apparently their definition of "stylish" is vastly different from my definition.

WTF, this bargain-bin-level design.

I’m all for it. If I can walk through the grocery store and AI can track all the prices on everything and help me budget, i would think that’s pretty cool. Or, if I need to check back what a professor said in class and work on the board, boom no problem. I can see people not wanting to get filmed, but aren’t we already being filmed constantly already? Now I get to film for my benefit.

If someone has a convo with me while wearing these fake ray-bans, we're gonna have heated words. Simple as.

It's one thing to be surveiled at a place for security purposes, but someone wanting to record me has decided they don't care about consent and that's more disrespectful. I will not be held at the whims of someone who feels obligated to share everything, because they're already broken inside to not care about anything but themselves.

Meta pedoglasses, this will end poorly.