Governments should ban this crap. Too bad that they are in bed with Big Tech.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2026
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Metas way to get AI training data is these glasses, palantir is flock cameras, Google is their existing inventory of video from mapping the entire fucking world, Musk has Tesla vehicles, they all have a means to watch the world and feed it to AI. Many have user data from all our devices and our online behaviors that can extrapolate and deduce what reality is.
We're legit fucked if these companies continue to operate in private, secrecy, and zero enforced return of value for he public well-being.
It’s wild to me that Ray Ban chose to immolate their brand like this.
Long term brand image is worthless. Number must go up this quarter, even if the world burns down. ~~Especially burn down the world~~
Zuckerberg is creepy so this follows. We are talking about a guy who would walk around his startup office with a samurai sword pretending to chop his employees with it. And a guy who deliberately got Julius Caesar’s haircut. And a guy whose original version of Facebook was a platform on which college students could rate the attractiveness of female college students.
The Social Network gives great insight into just how terrible and awkward he really is. Plus Jesse Eisenberg knocks it out of the park.
Zuckerfuck is absolute cancer, but the even sadder part is how many losers buy this shit. Shame.
I don't condone violence but,...
Actually, no, I do condone violence against these pricks. Zuck, Bezos, Musk & Co. deserve to be hung by an angry mob.
We had to ban these at my workplace.
They were already prohibited due to our existing mobile policies, but we had to especially ban them whenever someone brought them in.
Did you already know they were creepy, or did they out themselves?
Someone found the glasses charging. I don't know the individual, I can't even remember their name, and I've never interacted with them. As far as I am aware, it's a simple manner of not allowing someone to have a camera strapped to their head when working.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, they were a foreign national who claimed they needed to use them for translation purposes. However, such an excuse can in theory be used by someone trying to commit espionage, so we cannot tolerate it. It was just recommended to their department to provide translated materials to help them grasp work-related terminology.
I imagine Andrew brought them on day 1
Zusk will later introduce an "off" feature for 10 bucks a month.
(it will still record everything surreptitiously)
10 bucks each time you turn it off
When do we invent scanner darkly rorschack shit?
Ugh, this company is totally fucking creepy! If only there were a way to disrupt these glasses using readily available electronics...
I just bought new glasses and got an IR-blocking lens coating that's supposed to thwart facial recognition from things like these and Flock cameras and whatnot. It's not active disruption via electronics, but it is a countermeasure...
They also make hats with IR LEDs that blind the cameras.
Countermeasures are good, despite them not being active...It's important to disrupt these terrible techs whenever possible!
There's an Android app that will constantly scan for their Bluetooth signature in the background and alert you.
I have this app. I work with a douche who wears these (despite then being banned), and this app didn't pick them up.
That must be a huge battery killer.
I have it installed on mine & haven't noticed any difference.
Nah, if you have Bluetooth on your phone is already doing it.
No fucking way they have enough battery built into that frame.
Its audio recording and takes pictures at a certain interval.
Would it be that hard to run a hidden wire to a battery bank? Especially with longer hair?
Hair is a terrible conductor, regardless of length.
That's sexy as fuck
Something nobody's ever said about you.