Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation
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Google Glass purposefully made it obvious what they were. The newer glasses without cameras from Meta et al basically look like regular glasses if you can't see the waveguide in the lenses.
If you know what you’re looking for, they’re not that difficult to spot. But, yeah, to most people, they would just appear to be regular sunglasses. This is a huge problem. It’s one thing when you’re being recorded by someone who is obviously holding a camera. It’s another one when, potentially, dozens of people around you could be recording everything all the time without anyone else, knowing it.
Not only is a potential for abuse incredibly high, the fact that Meta ends up owning all of the content so they can harvest it for monetary gain is even worse.
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The only difference between their concept and Alexa, for example, is that you wear it on your face and tether it to a phone. Oh, I guess it also has a display you can read. Massive innovation right there.
I think the facial recognition bit of it is what makes it novel.
Under your argument the smartphone was not an innovation, it’s just a computer you carry in your pocket. And actually computers are not an innovation they are just calculators that can make a lot more calculations at one time.
It’s kind of disingenuous.
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Illegal in the EU btw.
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Now would be the time for a scramble suit startup.
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FOMO. Every experience is recorded just in case you (or really the government) might ever realize it was missed. Just in case it ever becomes interesting.
Like recording videos of fireworks
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What is the value of recording everything?
I record all my phone calls. It allows me to pretend not to forget all the names, dates, places and other important details we just talked about with the other person as soon as the call ends.
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Yes, the problem I'm having is too much privacy from tech-bro douchebags, how did they know?
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If you know what you’re looking for, they’re not that difficult to spot. But, yeah, to most people, they would just appear to be regular sunglasses. This is a huge problem. It’s one thing when you’re being recorded by someone who is obviously holding a camera. It’s another one when, potentially, dozens of people around you could be recording everything all the time without anyone else, knowing it.
Not only is a potential for abuse incredibly high, the fact that Meta ends up owning all of the content so they can harvest it for monetary gain is even worse.
Wasnt there someone who hacked their google glasses and was getting everyone's home addresses around him on facial recognition? I would think the risk would be fairly high to people who work with the public from these folks
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Slashdot comments hating hard on this, good!
Its absolutely fuckwittery to want this trash.
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Everything has already been invented. So we get this shit to invade our lives and ruin the last little bit of anything good.
FUCK CAPITALISM.
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What else would you expect from a bunch of dropouts ?
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I think the facial recognition bit of it is what makes it novel.
Under your argument the smartphone was not an innovation, it’s just a computer you carry in your pocket. And actually computers are not an innovation they are just calculators that can make a lot more calculations at one time.
It’s kind of disingenuous.
It is unoriginal because meta already did it! They directly referenced meta in their description.
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Illegal in the EU btw.
Yet another reason I should flee the US.
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My crowbar of justice is ready to be liberally applied
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Being a dropout doesn’t make you special
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Won't be leaving the house if everyone starts using them haha
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Yet another reason I should flee the US.
Illinois requires two party consent for recording in-person conversations at least.
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Illinois requires two party consent for recording in-person conversations at least.
That sounds nice. Seems like something my state (CA) might have?
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Anybody can 'launch' a 'startup'. Alway-on recording has been around since the 60s. 'Smart' glasses? Har. Guess they never heard of 'glassholes'.
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Is there anything whatsoever a privacy-minded person can do about something like this, in terms of personal protection?
Wait 'til they come out (if ever), figure out the tech, make/buy a detector, pull your club out ur backpack ...
