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Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.

And rightfully so.

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

Sociopath glasses

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It was the first thing I thought of when I saw these glasses: 100% perverts are going to buy them.

Perverts and predators. I fully expect to hear about stalking and murder rates going up due to these-- and hopefully the makers will be sued out of fucking existence.

[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The one good use I’ve seen: member of my fam has been deaf since childhood and recently got glasses that transcribe conversations

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As someone hard of hearing with an auditory processing disorder that is my main temptation. My hearing aids work too well for me to spend the money at the moment though

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[–] hneerqe@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Embarassing it was ever anything besides 'pervert glasses'

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem is that influencers are already way ahead of you. Lots of normalizing them for "content creation" when they want to film in public. And if they had a sponsorship in a different video? Coincidence.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

You can wear them if you have a blind cane and the lenses are blacked out.

I think there’s real value as an accessibility device for something like this. But not from Meta.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assume the engineers that build these products are perverts themselves. Who else would take a job building such a thing?

I think the tech comes from VR headsets.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You know what sucks is I wear heavy framed Ray-Bans that have no camera. Now I could get lumped in w/ these chomo's... Fucking hell.

I guess its back to wire frames that can't handle any abuse...

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got new glasses recently, and chose thin frames for this reason.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

It really sucks that we have to think this way...

[–] Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you're not blind or deaf it's gonna get mighty expensive standing in front of me with that shit on.

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I was hoping pedo glasses would catch on as a term but I can settle for this.

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