Privacy

I'm thinking this might have been a publicity stunt for either her or the glasses. If you see her launch a career from this then you know it was for her, meta wins either way.

Pretty sure this is going to be unpopular but …

Filming someone on a subway without their knowledge is often legal for video alone in the United States if you are in a public area and not focusing on intimate parts of their body, but it can become illegal depending on state wiretap (audio) laws, transit rules, and “unlawful surveillance” or voyeurism statutes. There are court cases and civil lawsuits touching on subway and public‑transit recording, but it really depends on purpose (e.g., sexual exploitation vs. news/photo use), location details, and whether audio is captured.

This guy is a creep and no he shouldn’t be able to record people like this. Then again you shouldn’t be able to destroy someone else’s property because you don’t like what they are doing with it. Would you feel the same way if he had his phone out and she did the same thing to it? What if it was a girl filming a man and he did this to her, would that be acceptable?

I hate to tell everyone we essentially live in a surveillance state and are constantly being filmed. Go look up Flock cameras or how easy it is to get Ring footage for example. I’m not condoning this in the least, but it is what it is. We honestly need better laws regarding this level of surveillance but as of right now we don’t.

Morally and ethically what she did may be applauded, but legally it’s not really all that gray.

In the places where tech like this would be helpful, there's no reason that "recording" needs to be a part of it.

Colorblind person needs help identifying colors...great. Doesn't mean the video needs to be stored. Face-blind people need help recognizing faces, it can access a local database. If the entire point of AI is to do real-time computing, there's no reason for any image/video to be permanently stored anywhere.

Frankly, make the fucking things illegal in public, and allowed only in private settings where recording a member of the public won't be a concern. They're useful for doctors who are performing an operation and interacting with another doctor via the internet at the same time. They're useful for things like that. But there is ZERO reason you need to be recording strangers in public without authorization.

But failing that, at least scrap the ability to record to a server. Shit's just creepy. It was creepy when Google tried it. It's even more creepy when it's from a company that is open about using AI to create "personalized" ads using the images of people in it's servers.

"Beautiful Woman Breaks Ugly Incel's Creep Glasses"

“You’re going to be famous on the Internet!”

Lol, he’s right but not the way he thinks.

In the meantime, eth8n claims to have “filed a claim with the police and it’s a misdemeanor charge.”

“What she did was assault, can get arrested for it if I see her again and felt like it,” he wrote.

This guy sounds like such an annoying little bitch.

He went out in public with the intention of provoking strangers, recording their reactions, and publishing it on the internet for profit. A stranger got a bit more provoked than he had preferred. It turns out that some people won't be fine with being provoked, recorded, and published on the internet. How strange.

I've never been to America and even I know not to be a dick on a New York subway.

There’s a disturbing number of creeps ITT arguing that they should be allowed to film people without their knowledge on the subway

While Meta built in a small LED light in the front of its glasses to indicate when it’s recording a video, it can easily be covered by a small piece of tape, making it trivially easy to spy on strangers in public without their knowledge or consent. As Daily Dot points out, people are even selling stickers for this specific purpose.

I was under the impression that covering the LED would prevent the camera function from working. I guess it doesn't.

"I was making a funny noise people were honestly crying laughing at," he claimed in the caption of a followup video. "She was the only person annoyed."

And then everyone clapped at the noises he was making, all the way to the next stop, and then President Obama got on the train at the next stop and gave him the Medal of Freedom for his bravery and letting the woman sit down.

Seriously did this motherfucker just move to the city, that he thinks anyone will believe that bullshit?

The doubebag smile on his face in the left pic tells me everything I need to know about who's in the right here.