Big brands line Rayban, slick marketing and a tech billionaire with a record of profiting from manipulating social behavior all have come together to push “smart glasses” as a desirable lifestyle choice …
Smart glasses or creepy idea sold as a desirable lifestyle product?
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Exactly. The problem is very few care…till a sensational scandal happens and then suddenly everyone cares
There's a difference. We share only what we choose to share on Social Media. And that too, not all of our content is given public visibility. And even that, many of us share cautiously, expecting that what's out there (regardless of the assigned visibility) is as good as public.
There are many people who value their privacy. They don't relish having their life (private moments or not) made publicly available.
Nicely expressed!
I think @alpha1 alludes to the situation that most people are oblivious to the way their data is being used by big tech companies.
However putting a camera on glasses and trying to normalise it as a desirable lifestyle is a bit different from us voluntarily sharing our information and visuals On social media?
Meta AI glasses showed bank info, naked people, and porn to overseas workers: Report
Swedish investigation reveals Meta AI glasses exposed contract workers to sensitive content, raising serious privacy concerns and regulatory scrutiny.
I suppose this would fall in the category of user error (the users simply forgot the glasses were recording), if the camera in the glasses was simply not on all the time (like our phone microphones sending "anonymized voice data"). * shrug *
I find the potential exposure of passwords and bank data to be more concerning, really.
These glasses can see bank and other passwords and everything the wearer sees too?
Shrugs maybe are all that we can do for now as we slide down the slippery slope of blindly accepting and even glorifying every new “tech innovation without safeguards on privacy.
At least till a sensational scandal involving the “not so smart glasses” erupts and then a knee jerk reaction of bans and moral posturing will ensue.
It’s distressingly banal
Shrugs maybe are all that we can do for now as we slide down the slippery slope of blindly accepting and even glorifying every new “tech innovation without safeguards on privacy.
At least till a sensational scandal involving the “not so smart glasses” erupts and then a knee jerk reaction of bans and moral posturing will ensue.
It’s distressingly banal
Meta Workers Reveal Some Of The Disturbing Things They’ve Seen Through Users’ Smart Glasses.
The investigation by the Swedish news outlets Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten revealed that employees at a Kenya-based subcontractor, Sama, were viewing private footage recorded by Meta glasses.
The videos often included highly personal and sensitive content, including nudity, bank details, private chats, and even moments of physical intimacy.
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The investigation by the Swedish news outlets Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten revealed that employees at a Kenya-based subcontractor, Sama, were viewing private footage recorded by Meta glasses.
The videos often included highly personal and sensitive content, including nudity, bank details, private chats, and even moments of physical intimacy.
Meta Workers Reveal Some Of The Disturbing Things They’ve Seen Through Users’ Smart Glasses
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta was sued by two U.S. citizens as a recent investigation into their AI smart glasses revealed alarming privacy violations. Science & Technology, Society
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A better discussion here:
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Can Meta see your private life through its Ray-Ban smart glasses? What to know
In 2026, we know to be wary of someone pointing a phone camera at you - but should you now be wary of people wearing glasses?
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