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Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses' (this.weekinsecurity.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by XLE@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.

And rightfully so.

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[–] GhostFace@lemmy.today 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because that's what they are?

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not true! You could be a freelance CIA agent/pizza delivery man and world's greatest swordsman (despite having never been in a real fight)

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, and won't someone think about those poor contractors over at Meta? How else are they going to meet their AI circlejerk quota and rank all of that increasingly disturbing novel content if they can't watch it through their glasses on their train rides to and from the office? Let's have some compassion here folks!

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Ugh, just typing that made me nauseous