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Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’::These stylish shades may look like a regular pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, but they're actually Meta's new Smart Glasses, complete with two tiny cameras and speakers implanted in the arms. The wearable tech was unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday at the 2023 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, sparking a frenzy online.

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[-] danielfgom@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] kicksystem@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

This is exactly the kind of fear mongering that they are hoping people will buy into.

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

I'd never grass up a shop worker because I have working class solidarity even with those in bad moods, but the coppers is a good example. Maybe also for road cyclists, but they already have cameras if they want them.

[-] sockinacock@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Or for keeping your bosses honest, verbal contracts become an awful lot more binding with video evidence.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Private companies almost all have provisions in their IT use policy banning this, and they can do this on their property. Just like they can ban firearms. Disney restricts some kind of video recording at their parks because of creepers and pervs, not that Disney is a model of privacy just that it's not uncommon.

The correct response would be, absent elected officials who act to protect consumers, for people to call out employers and companies who would allow this in their space, shaming them, then the product would die.

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