Women’s rights don’t look good through Meta AI glasses

@alexandrageese

THIS is the POINT of "Meta Glasses".
Seriously, they need to be banned outright.

@Gurre @alexandrageese good thing they were ugly and no one wanted them anyway
Trump’s DHS agents are wearing Meta AI glasses. But who are they recording – and why?

ICE and Border Patrol are increasingly using government body cameras and facial recognition scanners in deployments across U.S. cities. But some agents are taking matters into their own hands with Meta AI smart glasses. Josh Marcus reports

The Independent

@alexandrageese disgusting

before facebook, zuckerberg built facemash, a site that scraped student photos without permission and let people rate their attractiveness. i suppose this glasses business is basically facemash on steroids

i better not post what i think society ought to do with people like zuckerberg and musk, as it would likely get me banned, but the temptation is definitely there

@alexandrageese when #fckai-glasses are pointed in my direction, my first reaction is a punch in their face. Questions follow only afterwards.
@bent0_b0x @alexandrageese
mine too, but since learning of the danger these glasses pose, If I see someone wearing them irl, I intend to walk up and ask loudly enough others can hear, "OOOh are those those meta glasses? Are you recording all of us here without our consent? Are you gonna dox me?" etc. Hopefully I can control that rage enough to get the words out.

@bent0_b0x
The first question should be “show me deleting that footage”.

@alexandrageese

@alexandrageese A better look for Europe would be stronger data protection for persons, open source, public code, guaranteed human, social and economic rights and a repeal of non-circumvention. Close the door on Big Tech lobbyists.
@alexandrageese Being a creep - the very origins of the whole Facebook saga

@alexandrageese

This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these.
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

GitHub - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses: attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you

attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

GitHub

@alexblock @alexandrageese Presumably only if you have an Android or an iOS phone?

Then this is also something that (potential) victims have to do to make sure they are less unsafe.

Along with a rape alarm, pepper spray, self-defence courses, airtag detection app etc.

The important question is how can we stop "smart glasses" technology from making people's lives more dangerous?

@the_wub @alexandrageese Totally agree, an app doesn't solve the problem. These glasses are an extension of the evil that Meta thrives on. Meta has no redeeming qualities, nor do any of their technologies. Some products need to be banned, these are an example.
@the_wub @alexandrageese @alexblock so they will put it into a broach, even a hat or a button. Spying on others is an attitude not a necessity.

@the_wub
To stop such products is to either regulate hard or tackle the incentives.

The first is reactive, the second is tackling patriarchy and capitalism.

P.S. Your post is set to German.

@alexblock @alexandrageese

@dzwiedziu @alexblock @alexandrageese Edited and set to English.

Yes, inevitably capitalism or rather "modern day digital feudalism" will have to be dismantled or at the very least much more strictly controlled if we and our offspring are to be freed from our current burdens.

@alexandrageese All of this was discussed years ago with Google glasses, and they flopped. Apparently neither IT industry nor society have learned from this.
@alexandrageese Considering what Facebook started as, why is anybody surprised?
@alexandrageese
Hopefully this is not just the usual spin about protecting our rights and look forward to hearing the battle has been won!
@alexandrageese Because al that is written was more written by male then women. So what AI learned is male dominant writings. Not right for sure. What can you do about it?