djlorieeMar 4
jenny (phire)

what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck:

"...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored."

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too

Not for your eyes only.

Gizmodo
Mar 3 at 11:07pmWeb
Show threadVissMar 3
@phire spectacular.
Show threadB'ad Samurai 🐐🇺🇦Mar 3

@Viss @phire has anyone seen signs posted by private business banning them in establishments yet? If not, it’s a trend I’d love to see.

ICE, Hate, and Meta Glasses GTFO!

Show threadVissMar 3
@badsamurai @phire i have not personally seen signs yet (the last time we 'went out', we went to a ghost show and my wife caught covid so we're like proper hermits now), but i fully expect they exist. if memory serves, ive seen folks posting pictures of when they encounter them in the wild
Show threadWill Mar 4
@badsamurai @Viss @phire Didn't that happen when Google Glass was a thing?
Show threadVissMar 4
@AncTreat5358 @badsamurai @phire yeah i believe it did, and its possible the whole sentiment is what killed google glass, but i dont think zuck is gonna give up as easy
Show threadFylgjaMar 4

@Viss @AncTreat5358 @badsamurai @phire
Zuck, Meta and Google are fantastic at marketing extremely invasive social media and tech features as 'fun.'

Here, accept these terms and conditions to let us collect and use all of your data to make cute graphics and photo edits with ✨flair✨

Meanwhile, selling all that data (and then some) to ICE and other government entities. 🥴

Show threadDr. Eric J. Fielding, PhDMar 4
@Viss @AncTreat5358 @badsamurai @phire I have seen people who use the Meta glasses called glassholes, resurrecting the name for Google Glass wearers.
Show thread:cool_s:ylvie Mar 4

@badsamurai @Viss @phire There is a campaign for just that by @fight if any looking to make it easy to put up signs

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-02-26-safety-advisory-family-friendly-establishments-urged-to-ban-metas-facial-recognition-glasses/

Safety Advisory: Family-friendly establishments urged to ban Meta’s facial recognition glasses

Today, digital human rights group Fight for the Future is issuing a safety advisory urging family-friendly businesses, schools, hospitals, community centers and places of worship to ban the facial recognition glasses Meta manufactures in partnership with Ray-Ban. As awareness grows following high profile instances of deepfake child pornography and child predation, glasses that could both […]

Fight for the Future
Show threadMy camera shoots fascistsMar 4

@badsamurai @Viss @phire

I have the signs already printed up and laminated. When we open in May, they will go up very prominently.

Show threadxyhhx Mar 4

@Viss i can't believe you've done this

@phire

Show threadVissMar 4
@xyhhx @phire it wasnt completely intentional, but i noticed it after i hit send :D
Show threadan actual busMar 3

@phire What's most baffling to me is that this is even remotely unexpected to anyone whatsoever.

At this point the *only* sensible expectation is that the fascist tech giants will pull *every* *single* *bit* of nasty business they can get away with.

Things are gonna start getting better when people at large accept the fact that the billionaires are our *enemy* and the institutions we put in place to keep them in check have failed.

It's up to all of us to defend ourselves.

Show threadgroxxMar 4
@renardboy @phire internet connected camera -> someone is looking at it. there's no other reasonable expectation.
Show threadlucaMar 3
@phire How long before Meta glasses wearers do get addressed with "you perv!" and a punch?
Show threadJesMar 3
@phire Time to start slapping glasses off of tech bro faces
Show threadGregMar 3
@phire
Regulation must be introduced globally, that anyone wearing these glasses MUST wear a dayglo pink burqa with the word 'recording' emblazoned in 50cm Arial Black front & back and an amplified voice warning in the local language, saying 'DANGER, META OVERSTEPPING!"
Show threadGregMar 4
@phire
I'm prepared to compromise on the burqa. An over the head internally mirrored goldfish bowl, with a live stream of loud thrash metal, would be an acceptable mandatory substitute!
Show threadLinux Is BestMar 4
@phire

I tried telling people this, but no one wanted to listen.
Show threadCassandrichMar 4

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116156794322790242

@phire Facebook Smart Glasses

Show threadkat donegan 🇵🇸✊Mar 4
@phire *luddite population increases*
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Mar 4
@kathimmel @phire these cursed objects will bring violence...
Show threadMy name is GordoMar 4
@phire is anyone really surprised at this point (I mean, aside from anyone stupid enough to own these and then clutch their pearls when they find out)?
Show threadLeah BobetMar 4
@phire The first place I went was: "Imagine having that job. Like, identifying someone's sad morning genitals for a machine learning program."
Show threadCaroline Bell Mar 4
@phire
If they bought a pair of smart glasses from Meta, Amazon, Google, or Microsoft in 2026, they should have absolutely expected this. I have no sympathy.
Show threadEdelruth, PBS Passport HolderMar 4

@phire

How wrong of me is it that my knee jerk reaction was, "served them right"?

Show threadsgt1372Mar 4
@phire Someone needs to design a #MetaGlasses #jammer that you can carry in your pocket or in a purse. They suck!!! 🤬
Show threadPatrick Morris MillerMar 4

@phire Speaking as someone who does not get acceptable vision correction from contact lenses: fuck those people.

("Who, the makers or the users?"

("Yes.")

Show threadNora Reed Mar 4
@phire seems bad
Show threadJeffrey1Mar 4

@phire

LMFAO What did you expect from Meta?

Show threadThe Great Llama Mar 4
@phire
I sincerely want to chat with anyone surprised by this news. I want to welcome them and ask them what they thought of their first day on the planet.
Show threadTJC-Mar 4

@phire

NO META.

Show threadMaddad ☑️Mar 4

@phire

too funny....😂
You get what you pay for..

Show threadRaven LuniMar 4
@phire
Show threadClive 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️Mar 4
@phire karma!
Show threadPeter KosMar 4

@phire "And the contractors sure seem like they’d rather not watch it—though they risk losing their job if they decide not to label something. “You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” an employee told the papers. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”

Who leads a team like that and thinks "i'm doing a good job!" 😬 like damn. grow up!

Show threadAndrew DrakeMar 4
@peterkos @phire that's basically the point of outsourcing this sort of thing to contractors. You want an army of people doing undesirable work for cheap, but you don't want to get your hands dirty. So you contract it out to someone who has no moral qualms about that sort of thing and tell them you want the job done and don't want to hear anything from them but results. They predictably run their shop like this, and if it ever does come back to you in a way that matters, you pretend to be outraged, terminate your contract with them, and contract with a new company that of course turns around and does the exact same thing.
Show threadMartin RundkvistMar 4

@phire
This is going to create a market for glasses that look obviously and loudly NOT like Meta's spying device.

#meta

Show threadGabriel Adrian SamfiraMar 4

@phire probably also looking at screens containing highly confidential/sensitive info.

Although there is a high chance that the people that routinely put their phones on top of the clothes dryer when they want to have an in person conversation, won't buy these.

Not sure about the ones that add reporters to signal groups though.

Show threadcaneToad Mar 4

@phire Won't come as a surprise that the internet is full of search strings like:
"How to turn off Meta Smart Glasses recording LED permanently?" or "Removing the Recording Light from Meta Ray-Bans?"
Look it up.

I feel these thingies carry quite some potential for violence.

Show threadTurreMar 4
@phire If somebody is actually surprised by this, it's time to check your expectations wrt these companies.
Show threadxs4me2Mar 4

@phire

We are doomed…

Show threadJenica Lake เหล็ถเหล็ถMar 4
@phire who are the people saying “the glasses stay on during sex” ????
Show threadChad Mar 4
@MamaLake @phire do they come with the option for prescription lenses? Probably people that are using them as their daily drivers.
Show threadJeffrey Rogers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Mar 4

@phire Do they use Bluetooth? Does the data get sent to Meta via a SIM?

We need to know how these work if we are to counter them. Anyone who expects to get ahead of big tech’s malice with legislation should realise that legislation can never catch up once we have accepted that billionaires are allowed to “move fast and break things”

Show threadH4Heights 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦Mar 4
@phire Never understood the attraction of those things… in the UK you need permission to film on private property so the question of what commercial properties do is interesting. I think I’d whip them off their face and crush them under my heel. Seems about right. Better than punching the wearer until they break, which is more tempting.
Show threadEFMar 4
@phire why is this a surprise to anyone?
Show threadWorldTravelerAll7Mar 4

@phire

haha!😁 #fafo to everyone still enriching the #Meta fascists

Show threadBen ZaninMar 4

@phire I've been waiting years for head mounted displays like the ones from XReal and Viture to get good enough that I could keep a pair in my bag and use them for working around town from my phone, without having to lug around a laptop. No interest in AR and "smart glasses".

And bullshit like this has poisoned that well entirely. I will now never be able to wear anything in public that looks like smart glasses without (correctly) attracting social opprobrium.

These finks make me so mad.

Show threadRead along with MattMar 4
@gnomon @phire I've been using XReal glasses as my main screen for about a year, and I can confirm that the biggest downside is having to say "don't worry, there's no camera or anything creepy" every damn time a new human sees me
Show threadBen ZaninMar 5

I have not seen many people in the real world using head mounted displays / smart glasses. (Outside of work, which is decidedly not the real world.) In fact only two:

1. A front desk hotel clerk wearing a pair of Facebook glasses (I truly wonder how many laws he was breaking in how many jurisdictions by just looking at credit cards...)

2. A drone operator at the nazi rally at Christie Pits last summer who was busily recording the faces of all the folks yelling at the nazis

Bad track record.

Show threadlemgandiMar 4

@phire

Deep inside a cube farm in an office tower in Virginia, a small group is gathered around a PC monitor. They are laughing at you.

Show threadMaximilian Overdraft, Esq.Mar 4

@phire So police body cameras can be turned off, but consumer AR cameras can't.

Can we reverse those policies?

Show threadsu_liamMar 4

@phire Who knew buying your eyeglasses from an amoral surveillance company would be an awful idea?

👋

Show threadadvokattMar 4
@phire why would anyone want to wear such glasses in the first place?
Show threaddeftpunk: your worst daydream.Mar 5
@phire at what point can we all agree the correct term is "stupid glasses"?
Show threadWendroid 🇺🇦Mar 5
@phire Whatever you see — your banking info, your private doodads, anything else — is recorded, stored, data mined