Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
Oh yeah, that’s a good reason to aid the expansion of global surveillance. Let’s all be complicit with the police state because we can’t acknowledge our social anxieties with a bit of honesty.
that kind of motivation is a bit like “its winter and I’m very cold, lets set the city to fire”. I guess it won’t be cold anymore for you! It’s not for wanting to harm other people, it’s just an obvious alternative motivation.
Oh yeah, that’s a good reason to aid the expansion of global surveillance. Let’s all be complicit with the police state because we can’t acknowledge our social anxieties with a bit of honesty.
Not what I was addressing. I was addressing a comment that said “only predators buy those glasses” by pointing out an obvious alternative motivation.
Even if there is some legitimacy to this motivation, it is very myopic and selfish.
that kind of motivation is a bit like “its winter and I’m very cold, lets set the city to fire”. I guess it won’t be cold anymore for you! It’s not for wanting to harm other people, it’s just an obvious alternative motivation.