This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
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The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
  • Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    17·
    5 hours ago

    Here’s the problem, it’s not doing anything people already couldn’t and weren’t doing, it’s just making it a lot easier and making it more widely available. Honestly it’s the exact same issue with “AI”, every bad aspect about it was already being done with existing LLMs, they were just the domain of a much smaller subset of people.

    • trashcan@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      3 hours ago

      it’s not doing anything people already couldn’t and weren’t doing, it’s just making it a lot easier and making it more widely available.

      This could be said of so many things.

      • Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.appEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        That’s… not even close to what I’m saying. That’s like saying using computers to steal money is illegal therefore using computers is illegal. Someone walking around with a camera is fairly commonplace, the problem is this tech makes it less easy to see and more accessible, which is a problem because of the number of people who would want to use it for something illegal. Remember back when they started making digital cameras which could take pictures silently, which was a big privacy issue? Then they started making mandatory sound effects when a picture was taken… until they stopped doing that?