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Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women (www.sydney.edu.au)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1332159/researchers-show-how-meta-s-pervert-glasses-are-used-to-harass-women

Pre-print research paper.

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[–] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm pretty sad that people have to be perverts and glasses with cameras got such a bad rep.

It is deserved and not surprising, and I'm not trying to defend them, but I was so looking forward to AR glasses with cameras, so I could finally get a working ad-block IRL, which should be easily possible with the tech.

But, that requires a camera. It's a shame, and I'll definitely rather continue dealing with ads than support enabling perverts (or Meta, anyway), but it sounded like such a cool use-case.

I hate how there are always groups who have to ruin everything for others :(

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

    Pretty sure the whole wet dream of the companies pouring money into this tech is to be able to put ads in your face all day long.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I was going to say, we barely have open-source cellphone OSes right now, and the most functional ones exist only because a surveillance company gave away their early code in a successful bid for market dominance. Something similar would probably play out for pervert glasses.

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