That must be so stressful for them. Poor babies.

Calling it now.

The first prosecution that involves pervert glasses will originate from someone who catches ICE beating and/or r***** someone to death and leaking it.

Dammit, now I'm mildly tempted to get a pair just to record ICE agents without them realizing, and either changing their behavior or chasing me down to halt the recording.
But then again, they probably need a Facebook account to even function.

But I thought the surveillance state was good for us? Why, do the police have something to hide?

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

Remember when body cams were meant to protect the police from accused wrongdoing?

Now anytime a body cam is not worn or activated it means the cops are planning to or are actively engaging in hurting someone.

Nothing to hide - nothing to fear, right officer?

I've said it before, but if these things weren't hooked up to a corporate cloud they would be great for sousveillance of the police and other authorities.

There're some out there from other manufacturers that have open source firmware, unfortunately they aren't cheap.

One of the few things they’d be good for

Huh, finally a use for Meta smart glasses I can get behind.

Well well well how the turntables

“The ability to covertly record inside a law enforcement or detention facility, could result in a security risk if proprietary information about cell layouts, camera placements, or officer patrol/site protection routines are released,” the memo read.

what a load of absolute shit. the devices could open them up to the legal consequences of their illegal actions and abuse.

shame meta is focused on equipping the perverts and creeps instead of the blind and exposing corruption and abuse.

That’s why they’re worried about them??…. That’s a huge ass obvious red flag if we’ve ever seen one

META being used for good? IDK, sounds far fetched...

Honestly a valid concern for anybody

So it's okay for crooked fuckers to use flock cameras to stalk women but it's not ok for us to record you using smart glasses?

How about a compromise? You shove the cameras up your ass, and we also get rid of the perv glasses because fuck that.

For recording in cells, the glasses would be caught by the regular scanners used at various security boundaries including upon entry to custody, at least every time I've been detained. Is that not normal in the US?

I mean, critical support to Meta I guess. They finally figured out a real use case for their glasses. Albeit a very limited one because there's already hidden cameras people can wear on their body, all of which are easily detectable when they search you before chucking you into a cell.

That story reads exactly how I would draft a Meta PR campaign to diffuse opposition to those surveillance glasses.

"If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide." Isn't that the mantra of the police and secret services everywhere when they demand more intrusive snooping rights?

So what do they do wrong that they suddenly have something to hide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox

This comment section should be ... interesting

If that's what it takes to get regulation for them I suppose.

Who would have thought there might be unintended uses of new technology? Just completely shocking.

Now just need to wait 2 years for the Chinese knockoff brands for $39.99 that can run open source software and we'll all be Snowden.

"secretly". They aren't exactly subtle.

Oh, no. That's terrible. Nobody should ever be recording the police........ It might catch them breaking a law or two /s

Oh no, that would be going tooo Farr...

Dead ass I wish the worse for many in power.

OMG, I LOL'd no cap

Nice try, Meta!

Boo hoo, go cry about it, ACAB

surveillance for thee, privacy for me. typical.

won’t be long until these fucking glasses look completely identical to normal glasses. and one day the size of a contact lens

There are other hidden recording devices maybe they already check for all those.

Ironically this is the one use case I can come up with that would prevent me from judging someone using them

Dammit, I’m looking for more reasons to hate them, not the other way around.

What are they afraid of?

If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear .

Right? Right?!?!

Right, they're worried about security, not evidence of abuse.

Something something surveillance for thee not for me

What's that they always say, "If you've got nothing to hide, you've nothing to worry about."?

Aftermarket 360 surround cameras and mics for cars are available. Along with Zuckerberg's pervert glasses, this would give you better video of a traffic stop than cops have.

Um, aren't all these assholes supposed to be getting recorded anyway?

I want to come up with a Flock pun for this but it’s too early…

Leopards .. something .. something .. face.

They're going to confiscate all glasses now aren't they? Jesus Christ...

I can’t even.

Seems like there's one legitimate usecase for these glasses

"And suddenly, AFTER THE COPS BITCHED, we'll address the issues y'all have. For public 'safety,' of course."

Wait,do cops have anything to hide?

What do you mean I can't just turn off my bodycam?