Story about low priced Anko branded competitor to Meta smart glasses. The story author calls out that despite Meta’s attempts to prevent recording if the LED is covered, it is easy to get around the block. I think it’s good for mainstream press to say it, so more ppl realize. They also call out that human moderators at Meta review their smart glasses footage. Inc videos of people having sex or using the toilet.
IDK if public backlash will nix the market for these, or if opposition will dry up and in 10 more years they will be mainstream tech like smartphones are today. I could see it going either way TBH.
It scares me that one of those timelines leads to a hellscape worse than the one we already have.
The backlash isn’t as powerful as the drive to monetize another accessory and the hundreds of billions of dollars to make it happen.
Without any kind of privacy laws making this kind of thing illegal, every company would want that kind of mass data and will gladly give you the glasses in order to take it from you.
The backlash isn’t as powerful as the drive to monetize another accessory
Yah you’re prob right. I always wish ppl just wouldn’t buy these, or rings, or w/e. So co’s would learn that it’s a guaranteed financial loss, to bring them to market.
But I know that’s a pipe dream. Sigh.
Capitalism over humanity, every time. No exceptions, no matter how “exceptional” you believe your country is.
I gotta say some of my bullshit on here again tbqh, I’m not afraid of the surveillance state I’m afraid of capitalist surveillance. You already have one, but people are in denial about it. Stuff like this will harden the situation & it will be undeniable. Maybe it’s actually not so bad to constantly be aware of your every move, to be aware that you’re being scrutinized by the Epstein class. That time is running out. That was true already. Now you have some dumb fuck with stalker glasses to embody it. Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera,
Go watch Southland Tales and tell me you don’t just live in that environment in Australia
I am recorded on no less than 6 cameras* on my commute home. It is likely the only part of my commute not completely filmed is the 100 or so yards from my subway stop to front door.
We have had ubiquitous surveillance for decades now. I refuse to believe meta glasses is going to be the straw that breaks the camels back.
*actual number is far higher.
The plan here is to feed those videos to AI training sets. The Internet has been scraped, now they want to scrape reality.
Things like Pokemon Go has already been doing that
Yes. Might depend on the région. For instance an average London commute is recorded by 300 CCTV.
The important word is closed circuit. Deleted every 31 days, by law.
Meta video is not deleted.
Been a while since I seen a Kmart. Lol.
Didn’t believe it myself, but still very big in OZ.
And New Zealand
Both are interesting notes. Most in the US are pretty long gone now. I guess internationally they suck less? Ours were falling apart back in the 2000-2010s.
I can’t even think of one in driving distance.
Wait, hold the fuck on a second… Australia still has K-Mart?
It’s a different company. Used to be a joint venture with the owner of the US brand, but it split off, and it’s completely separate now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kmart_Australia
But in looking that up, I learned that Anko, the brand in the story, is K-Mart Australia’s house brand, I guess kinda like Great Value for US based Walmart.
Low cost pervert glasses.
Oops didnt mean to! /$
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