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Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses (www.brusselstimes.com)
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“Experts in Europe warn that these devices are used to record strangers without their consent, possibly breaching EU law.”

“A small LED light is designed to indicate when recording is taking place, but RTBF's investigators found that tutorials explaining how to conceal the indicator are abundant and easily accessible online.”

Sometimes I have a hard time deciding who I despise more, parasite Mark Zuckerberg or its witless hosts who keep using its products—yes, Zuck's pronoun is it. Ban Ray-Ban, for frick's sake.

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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 132 points 5 days ago (21 children)

Who would’ve known this would happen? Everyone. Meta knew people would use it for the bad and they still decided to go on with it because money.

Hope there will be a way to prevent being recorded, like some tech that disables it or something.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 5 days ago (3 children)

There are lights that work on some cameras. I'm not sure which (infrared, I think prolly others). Search the web. They exist. But how are you gonna have that at all times everywhere? Easier to set the Meta HQ on fire. And that's prolly not easy.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are lights that work on some cameras. [...] Search the web. They exist.

Or look in real life :-)

They are small and you can see them only from some specific angle. And not quite bright.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

I think they are referring to camera-blinding IR lights

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