the continuing legacy of FaceMash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YxiCqUz98&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260709-metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-to-record-24-7-without-a-light - podcast
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Zuckerfuck is absolute cancer, but the even sadder part is how many losers buy this shit. Shame.
We had to ban these at my workplace.
They were already prohibited due to our existing mobile policies, but we had to especially ban them whenever someone brought them in.
Did you already know they were creepy, or did they out themselves?
I imagine Andrew brought them on day 1
Someone found the glasses charging. I don’t know the individual, I can’t even remember their name, and I’ve never interacted with them. As far as I am aware, it’s a simple manner of not allowing someone to have a camera strapped to their head when working.
I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, they were a foreign national who claimed they needed to use them for translation purposes. However, such an excuse can in theory be used by someone trying to commit espionage, so we cannot tolerate it. It was just recommended to their department to provide translated materials to help them grasp work-related terminology.
Zuckerberg is creepy so this follows. We are talking about a guy who would walk around his startup office with a samurai sword pretending to chop his employees with it. And a guy who deliberately got Julius Caesar’s haircut. And a guy whose original version of Facebook was a platform on which college students could rate the attractiveness of female college students.
I don’t condone violence but,…
Actually, no, I do condone violence against these pricks. Zuck, Bezos, Musk & Co. deserve to be hung by an angry mob.
Ugh, this company is totally fucking creepy! If only there were a way to disrupt these glasses using readily available electronics…
There’s an Android app that will constantly scan for their Bluetooth signature in the background and alert you.
I have this app. I work with a douche who wears these (despite then being banned), and this app didn’t pick them up.
The app didn’t detect the glasses that it was solely designed to detect??
Not in my case, no.
That must be a huge battery killer.
Nah, if you have Bluetooth on your phone is already doing it.
Basically this. The polling rate and client interrogation behavior can often be pushed to a far more aggressive stance than the usual defaults, but only in foreground mode on most mobile OSes.
I have it installed on mine & haven’t noticed any difference.
Oh, boy, Rapist Glasses
There’s a UK Parliament petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses”. If you’re in the UK, you might want to sign it. [UK Parliament]
Given Parliament’s track record, they’ll probably respond by banning glasses that don’t have cameras, but I still endorse this
@BlueMonday1984 @dgerard don’t be silly, they will ban children from having glasses.
Isn’t UK’s usually problem the other way around, they use "Protecting the Children"tm as an excuse to ban sensible things or take away privacy from adults? This would be a first, taking away something from Children to protect the adults.
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@BlueMonday1984
> petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses"This seems like kind of a knee jerk response. How are “smart” glasses defined? Could such a ban also limit privacy-respecting digital facewear? When covering protests for Indymedia, I would have loved a wearable camera.
If the only thing that makes these different from carrying a “smart” phone is the always-on camera, maybe it would be better to propose regulation specific to that?
No fucking way they have enough battery built into that frame.
Would it be that hard to run a hidden wire to a battery bank? Especially with longer hair?
Waiting for Zuck to grow dreadlocks to store nests of batteries.
I don’t get why these things even need cameras ?
For mass data collection obviously
@dgerard so…these camera’s are recording without a notification light?
Thats…that has to be illegal…
