jenny (phire)Mar 3

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
Show threadPeter Kos

@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!

Mar 4 at 5:05amWeb
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.