I found this morsel particularly poignant:
"Ironically, Meta expected rights groups to be too busy to step in, given the disastrous geopolitical climate.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the document reads, as quoted by the NYT."
Who are the morally bankrupt execs who wrote this? I want names.
And I used to think the "secret dastardly plan diary" -files scattered around in Resident Evil and the like were silly B-movie stuff that obviously would not be written down in the real world.
But no, they're assigned in company strategy meetings and politicians just hit their sex slave supplier on Gmail with "Heya yo haave sum tasty kiids to fuck in Cali thiss wekend?"
"if such a dynamic political environment fails to come, the corporation will spur on dynamism by sponsoring alternative dynamic groups from within the country whenever possible" Shock Doctrine at its best
The fact that this is being said so openly.
oh it illustrates the principles of Shock Doctrine as explained by Naomi Klein in her book as have been used over and over by extreme capitalist to impose the wonders of their ~~ideologic~~ scientific capitalism. But I just made up the whole sentence above
Also, it will introduce: snitchonomics.
Mass surveillance is here, but what if you could be an annoying little shit in the local community? Introducing: snitchonomics. Go around your neighborhood, discover discrepancies, automate your snitching and become a toadie for the local commissars.
Meta: the Nazis would have loved us.
HOA board members are so horny for these right now.
Just add an arbitrary point system like they give reviewers on Google Maps and people will be beating down the door to do this.
Get ahead of the curve and make these illegal.
Haha laws aren't made to benefit the population silly.
The problem with that is, how do we make glasses like these illegal without also making any type of filming in public illegal?
A good start would be for more states to adopt wiretapping laws with two-party consent models. Only 11 states have these on the books currently.
Buy a pair and follow rich and powerful people around with them. That's how they become illegal.
You wouldn't be able to get close enough to them.
How close do you need to get for facial recognition with a device that is designed to vacuum up every face it comes across? After a couple of scandals about who was out where with whom, that's all it would take.
I kinda think kureta@lemmy.ml is right tho, it'd be hard. People like Zuck, they take private jets from here to there. They don't fly commercial. They don't go eat to normal restaurants with the plebs, he has high end privately catered. He don't do his own shopping. Zuck bought 11 houses around his own mansion, for .... privacy!
That goes into an observation. Zuck zealously guards his own privacy. He doesn't want YOU to have privacy! But HE wants as much privacy as he can get.
I think hidden cameras are already illegal in some places, no?
Like you can't film in a bathroom, so wouldn't they be required to take these glasses off before walking in?
Just expand that so no secret cameras can be used, or.cameras disguised as every day objects like pens and glasses.
I think the best start would be to make it illegal to collect and retain data that would make devices like this useful.
Not like meta has a long history of ignoring obvious, enormous problems theyre causing that experts keep pleading with them to take seriously. Like in Myanmar. Where it has killed an enormous number of people and the death toll keeps rising.
I'm sure they'll do something this time
Like in Myanmar
It was horrific, what hapened there with Facebook. Viral rumors would spread, the Rohingya were putting sterilization pills into the food supply. People would believe it. Then they would torture or kill those the rumors were about. They would burn down their businesses and homes. There were mass scale murder and rape, whole viliages burned. Because Facebook had displaced local news. What was on Facebook became the reality for so many people. It became an anti-Rohingya echo chamber, the hate would feed on itself.
I think this effect is playing out in western democracies today. Slower, because the US, Canada, or Europe altogether, are much larger than Myanmar. The big ship turns slower than the small. But the same dynamics are here. Viral social media posts make their own twisted "reality". It's not just Facebook, neither. It's lots of others too.
I don't know how to stop it.
Gonna make Bluetooth scramblers real popular
And there's an app called "nearby glasses" that'll notify us when/where anyone nearby has these meta glasses active.
Meta: "That's the point!"
They know. They consider it a sell-able feature.
Perverts know what perverts want.
Please reach out to your family and urge them to stop using Facebook (or worse, any form of reels) if they still do. The onus is on the informed now. It’s not enough to just ask the tech barons to stop, we also need to divert their support.
I was really interested in who the pervert experts were, but it turns out it was just human rights groups.
"Pervert Glasses" = AI glasses
(For doomscrollers who don't read the articles)
so like, i think the tech is cool. i can't really think of a good use case for it though. that's the thing.
When google glass first debuted, I was thinking how much easier my job could be if I could have the faces of the people authorized to enter in that device to make admission easier (there were over 300 faces to remember that didn't have to use their issued ID due to position), as in, when a person approaches if they were in my "PRIVATE ON DEVICE" database their access card would display on my screen. Never got one, thankfully. This new tech would be great for this except I doubt that there would be an offline mode, so I see no use case for this unless you want to assist in the tracking of people for Meta.
I would like it to replace clunky GoPro camera to capture outdoor sports adventures.
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