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Meta Removes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses, Is Mad About it (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 5 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Why can’t a company do smart glasses with self-hostable or fully local processing?

I’d love a pair but fuck streaming everything I see to a random dude in Nigeria

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  • [–] 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Well for one thing, it's creepy and the people around you don't want to be passively recorded 24/7.

    Remember Google Glass? Its users were called "glassholes" for a reason.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Because recording people without their consent is creepy AF.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Of course it is. But if I do it locally it’s just me, not some megacorps wage slaves looking at the data.

    Mostly my nerd brain would like to go “what is this plant” or “overlay all planes overhead to my screen” 😀

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    There are to separate issues here:

    • corporation gathering surveillance data on everyone
    • creeps filming women and children

    Even if it's just for you it's still creepy. You may not record people without consent but we don't know that. All we see is a camera pointed at us.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Self-hosted doesn't mean "look how nice I am". When a piece of tech is shit, it's shit whether it is self-hosted or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It’s not about being nice. It’s about me knowing where my data is.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Are you a cybersecurity expert? Can you guarantee that the data you'll collect with your secret agent glasses won't end up in the open?

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