I'm just not going to buy AR glasses.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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All the more reason for you to be afraid of this. Your own glasses aren't going to be seeing your face, it's everyone else's.
You know how as a general rule, you don't punch someone wearing glasses? Here's the acception.
We have already gotten a taste of what a future with facial recognition on Meta glasses may look like. In 2024, two Harvard students developed a project that allows Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses wearers to identify people’s faces and use public databases to find names, addresses, phone numbers, and relatives.
Yep, and since this is Meta, you may rest assured that they will be harvesting all that facial recognition data along with the wearer's detailed location data in order to sell a subscription service to ICE, DHS, and law enforcement in general.
The World Is Not Enough
That's the thing with internet corporations now, the only new ways they have to make money is AI investors or selling more of your data. It's always some new infringement from these guys.
I suggest we also add a baseball bat, moving at around 25 mph, directly to the nose bridge area of the device.
The 5 people that bought them are going to be really annoyed by this.
Not so much as the people around them. They're the real targets.
"Smartglasses" already reports everything about their ~~owners~~ users. With that feature, they'll report on everyone around them too.
Man, and I thought my agoraphobia was bad before
I work as a customer facing public servant. These things are a potential nightmare for my colleagues and I.
Any IR blocking lenses will work. I got some cheap wayfarer knockoffs and I like em ok. But I like cheap gas station shades.
https://www.zennioptical.com/id-guard
Also if you're so inclined to use makeup, I'm too self-conscious
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/make_up_thwart_facial_recognition/
White paper on it. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13507
I shouldn't have have to go to those lengths just to do my job.
Nobody should be making these glasses in the first place. It's an unbelievable intrusion on everyone's privacy. Since Zuck seems to think so little of everyone's privacy, why doesn't he have a full-time livestream broadcasting all the time so we can all see what he's doing? I hate this fucking timeline
Many cameras today have ir-filters built in making this pretty useless.
Before those filters became common you could blind most security cameras with an ir flashlight, not so much today.
If glasshole googles don't have that yet it's just a matter of time.
Why do IR blocking lenses work on these? I thought tgey record light in the visible spectrum
Oh hey thanks, I've just recently realized I need a pair of backup glasses and I'd forgotten Zenni existed. I also remembered I have a prescription from a few years ago and my eyesight has been stable for the last decade AND I found a pair in exactly my style from literally the front page. Might as well get the id-guard ones even though facial recognition isn't being pushed here... yet. IR blocking seems semi-useful even without that given that the day orb spews IR and UV at us all day long.
Do high-intensity UV LEDs still wash out digital cameras or did the technology get better? (by better I mean worse)
Either that or IR still blows out the range of a lot of cheaper/older cameras, or at least would have much of your face rendered as basically a white or black blob/bloom, so long as the emmiter is at the right angle/distance/strength relative to the camera.
But... there are a hell of a lot of different cameras, some of them do basically negate or otherwise filter or adjust for this... no clue how generally prevalent those kinds of cameras are these days, if the meta face stealer goggles will have them or not.
I wonder if we could up the power a bit and use smart targeting lasers to burn out the camera cells.
Meta clearly didn’t learn when Google tried to do this
A lot has been normalized since then.
Has it? I feel like it has become more recognized, and considered more socially unacceptable, than ever.
Look at all the rings people installed and are just now waking up about. Look at how much data cars gather on their drivers. Glassholes predate that world.
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it almost always turns into watching porn in public or being perverted like recording taking a pic of men/woman for porn purposes. i saw 1 person 1 time in public when google glasses came out, it was funny.
Let’s please not give the dead bird app cult ideas Shudders at the thought of X goggles
what you expect an android trying read peoples minds.
The djinn is out of the bottle. We will be a total surveillance society. You won't have a moment that isn't watched.
Oh, yeah so all public forums are archived and time stamped and usernames are compared against others. Also it's not just scammers that look at or buy databreaches