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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago

Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses

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Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago
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Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.
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  • pineapple@lemmy.ml
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    Yet another surveilance tool marketed as a cool tech gadget.

    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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      I remember when cool tech gadgets were cool and not undisguised spy tools.

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    It really doesn’t matter if facial recognition is enabled or not today, it can always be done later on. This is a huge invasion of privacy.

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      I don’t think even George Orwell could have predicted that one day they’d put the cameras inside glasses, it would be common knowledge that they’re in there and the they’re spying on you and everyone you look at, and people would still voluntarily buy them with their own money and wear them around.

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        that’s why aldous huxley was a better author

      • ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw
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        In soviet russia, glasses see you!

      • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Just wait until they have brainwave scanners on the sides

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    So you’re telling me that the creepy motherfuckers who would wear something like this around in public do creepy things?

    Never would have guessed that. 🤔

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      Also why is Meta watching that footage?

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        I’m pretty sure they monitor everything on all of their platforms, I don’t know if they have to for legal reasons or just choose to.

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          Yeah, sorry I just read the article and found the answer, they tag the videos to train their AI.

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      Also why is Meta watching that footage?

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    How long until Meta starts blackmailing people with this shit?

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      For real, The real question here is why does anyone at Meta have access to users data like that. This is rhetorical.

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      Epstein 2.0

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    Here’s the original article: https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

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    These glasses and the people who wear them are disturbing.

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    What a surprise

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’m not surprised they are spying and I’m not surprised that the type of person to buy these things would be doing disturbing shit

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    Kathryn Bigelow’s most under-rated film is almost upon us…just 30 years later than we thought.

    Also…if you haven’t seen that movie…go watch it. It’s low-key one of her best.

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      I know this is off-topic, but Kathryn Bigelow is just an under-rated director in general I think. So many bangers. Also from a quick search I just found out she had a new movie out last year that stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Jared Harris? Somehow I missed that entirely.

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    One could make a decent bit of $ on “I do not consent” knitted balaclavas on Etsy.

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    Orwell got it wrong with the wall mounted screens - ‘they’ want us to wear the screens. What was that album title? 'If you accept this,your kids are next., ’ Can’t remember which band

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    Well that’s what you get for spying on people. Duh

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      Meta learning what the meme-CIA agents had been subjected to for years.

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    But this is not the problem but a symptom. Of you having no right to privacy (and if, it can be overwritten by some ToS).

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    'I have nothing to hide."

    /s

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    Now I’m chuckling at the thought that the view from these glasses is likely to be used for training AI, so you could have a bit of fun just aiming them at the most horrifying but legal porn you can find and plonk them down aimed at the screen while you go do other stuff.

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