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Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway (futurism.com)

submitted 6 days ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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

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[–] unit327@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These glasses do not have even a fraction of the computing power to do any of that on device. It's a uploading everything to the cloud. The design is surveilance first ask questions later.

[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

as it should be when going into a known dangerous situation.

[–] unit327@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

These are not "safety" glasses for the benefit of the user, where they are the ones in control of the data. This is all for the benefit of the corporation.

[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure the guy wears the glasses gets some utility out of the glasses otherwise he wouldn't have one. The evidence collected can be resold back to the user, but ultimately it's the user that finds value in them. The corporation is unlikely to find utility out of the footage which they cannot use without violating copyright laws.

I'm not arguing that these glasses do not contain spy tech, the issue with arguing that is, so does smartphones.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

huge difference. smartphones are not recording the street most of the time, and they have permission controls.