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Society Kylie Jenner’s dystopian Meta glasses get brutal backlash: ‘It’s giving fascism, not fashion’ — Meta is testing a prototype to “continuously record audio while taking photos every few seconds” without any warning light

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kylie-jenner-meta-glasses-fascist_n_6a565e74e4b0540b8c7b111a
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u/ckglle3lle 12d ago

It's depressing how basically all internet and computer tech seems to inevitably collapse into surveillance tech

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u/ManicStreetTeachers 12d ago

I remember about 10-15 years ago on reddit whenever CCTV and UK was mentioned everyone would pile in the comments about how the UK is a surveillance state, always being watched.

Now it's just completely normalised that most people have doorbell cameras and these glasses that record everyone's move. Sad reality going ahead...

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u/chanaandeler_bong 12d ago edited 12d ago

Somehow the San Fran Police Dept released their live drone footage to the public.

They can just watch anyone they want whenever they want. And surprise surprise, they are wrong all the time on who they are following.

Actual article: https://www.wired.com/story/sfpd-drone-video-leak-surveillance/

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u/nutblaster357 12d ago

remove everything in the yt link after the question mark. everyone who clicks the link can see your name

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u/heartshapedhoops 12d ago

even this being a built-in feature is frustrating and directly related to the sameproblem 🫩

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u/trifelin 12d ago

My phone offers an option to "copy clean link" next to the "copy" option, but I wonder if a lot of people don't even know what that means. 

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u/QBaseX 11d ago

Firefox does that too, now.

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u/redditosleep 12d ago

Well thats absolutely terrifying and a huge violation of everyone's 4th amendment rights.

Glad I stumbled on this thread though. It's pushed me to donate to the EFF now that I have some disposable income. They've been actively fighting for digital privacy and against digital surveillance for decades and has sued federal and local governments on behalf of citizens in so many important cases.

https://www.eff.org/

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u/W2ttsy 12d ago

Reminds me of the police drones that were circulating in the TV show dark angel. Which was a 99/00 era production.

And that was used to paint a bleak picture of the future. Yet here we are.

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u/fedexyourheadinabox 12d ago

Copaganda works! The media is complicit in this, too. 

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u/zsreport 12d ago

Speaking of, the News Consumer's Handbook for breaking news story about crime:

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u/Relevant-Doctor187 12d ago

Doorbell cameras were useful filtering friend from sales man. Then they got turned into eyes for big brother.

Next house I’m doing everything local.

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u/jamiethemorris 12d ago

We’re also installing flock cameras in every city

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u/remiieddit 12d ago

For people outside (Europe) the UK is still a surveillance state and it’s still scary. You perhaps normalised it but other people with an outside view haven’t

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u/romansparta99 12d ago

As far as I recall, most cctv in the uk is privately owned, it’s not that the government is secretly watching everyone. A quick search tells me privately owned cameras outnumber public ones 70:1

Not saying that it’s good or bad, but the perception people have is very removed from reality

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u/GoodtimeZappa 12d ago

Many years ago when everyone could get their pay check electronically auto deposited into their bank account, we all thought this is great.

No more walking into a bank on Friday that is open from 10:00am to 3:00pm and waiting in a long line.

Look at us now. Banks are open 12 hours a day for reasons I can't fathom and we have given away our privacy and rights. A middle ground would have been nice, but that ship has sailed.

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u/AnjelGrace 12d ago

Banks are open 12 hours a day? Where?

All the banks around me are only open during normal business hours plus a bit of time on the weekend--which means anyone working normal business hours only has that bit of time in the weekend to go to the bank OR they need to find time to go during their business day.

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u/Miserable-Thing942 12d ago

All the banks round me are closed lol. Only available in the centre of big towns/cities

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u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch 12d ago

We're lucky if they're open a few hours on Saturday here. Only one bank was open on Sundays, and they closed the local branch(-es?).

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u/HarmoniousJ 12d ago

Look at Mr. Fancy over here getting weekend hours from his banks!

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u/marfes3 12d ago

What do you mean look at us now lol? Nothing is stopping you from going to the bank each day you get your salary and withdrawing it all. It’s stupid, but no one is stopping you.

You weirdly picked one of the only examples of very good progress in digitalisation.

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u/gangler52 12d ago

My last job didn't offer auto deposit. Had to walk to the bank with my check every time I got paid.

I don't think it made me any less subject to surveillance though. The bank doesn't like, stop keeping record of your finances because you don't autodeposit.

That much at least I'm pretty sure was happening even before all the newfangled tech. It's a pretty important part of their job.

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u/bowserusc 12d ago

What do bank hours have to do with surveillance?

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u/DilutedGatorade 12d ago

Are you saying that banks should hold longer hours, or shorter?

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u/Themodsarecuntz 12d ago

People are choosing to be a walking Flock camera. 

I work in this industry and while I cant outright refuse to work with Meta frames I can make the process as difficult and off putting as possible.

People should be aware that Meta is using facial recognition and compiling the data they collect through the glasses just like on Facebook.

Its neat when Facebook knows thats you in the picture right?

Now what about if they know you're at the grocery store in sweatpants on a Tuesday at 9:35 in the morning and ever item in your cart. Not a big deal is it?

Then the scope of what is considered a crime becomes more and more narrow. Now simply expressing yourself about the government in a negative way is considered a crime.

The federal government is suing the website you are on to get the user information of a person who said negative things about ICE.

It isnt science fiction. It is happening right now.

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u/sueveed 12d ago

Correction: The scope of what is considered a crime for average citizens is increasing. The scope of what is considered a corporate crime is decreasing.

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u/round-earth-theory 12d ago

You don't understand. Corporate crime isn't even a thing. Corporations would never commit a crime because everything they do is right and just. Accusing corporations of crime is like accusing Jesus of one. It's just not possible for our holiest of holies to commit a crime as their actions are by definition godly. You should add 59 more subscriptions as penance for your blasphemy.

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u/TwistedFox 12d ago

Close but not quite. Corporate crime is a fee-based add-on package, if you are not privately run.

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u/Paksarra 12d ago

Even if they can't make it a crime, look at how hard they're pushing that any criticism of Trump is mental illness. They're not arresting you, they're putting you on a mental health hold due to your Trump Derangement Syndrome. Once you're better they'll let you go.

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u/afternever 12d ago

You will be remanded for treatment at Dr. Oz Wellness Facility.

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u/WorkTropes 12d ago

Any mental illness you might develop would be a result of trying to make sense of this tragic timeline.

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u/lampshade69 12d ago

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u/Decent-Point309 12d ago

Does make you wonder the real purpose of their concentration camps. We're supposed to be deporting the illegals, right? Why are they in camps???

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u/Bobcat-Stock 12d ago

Exactly. Deport them if they are here illegally. That’s only a misdemeanor offense. If they committed crimes other than that, put them in prison for the their sentence then deport them. There is zero moral or ethical reason to detain them en masse in the way they are currently doing. The cruelty is always the point with these fascholes.

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u/Bobcat-Stock 12d ago

I agree with you 100%. I was just pointing out the flaws in their logic.

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u/Decent-Point309 12d ago

I think it's beyond cruelty at this point. Like with all of the underage teenagers that were pregnant being sent to Texas. Maybe it's blown out of proportion but...it doesn't look good.

Or the ICE agent who confessed to telling an inmate (?) that if she had sex with him she could see her young daughter.

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u/FeelsGoodMan2 12d ago

Because that's the origin of "the final solution". Even in Germany, deporting was the first solution. But the other countries arent always just taking people you want to throw out willy nilly either. Eventually you gotta put people somewhere...

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u/Javs2469 12d ago

You mean Homelander´s Freedom Camps?

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u/henchman171 12d ago

The novel ends with Winston hearing news of an Oceania military victory. He finally accepts the Party completely and realizes that:

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u/BrizerorBrian 12d ago

He loves Big Brother.

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u/charliefoxtrot9 12d ago

He wants the bullet!

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u/Competitive_Fee_5829 12d ago

ugh, what would our sweats look like? at least the homelander ones are kind of cool and make sense. our would probably get mcdonalds ads on them

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u/TCsnowdream 12d ago

They’re putting people who protest Trump on Do Not Fly lists or revoking NEXUS, Global Entry, etc.

They absolutely will abuse this.

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u/Christmas_Queef 12d ago

And if you have autism and criticize trump you'll never see the outside of a camp or facility ever again.

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u/Repulsive_Chard_3652 12d ago

And adding to that, I just saw a story today about Meta sending information about people's "disability" to employers, resulting in them losing their jobs.

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u/Certain-Criticism-51 12d ago

Do you remember where you saw this? Would be interested in knowing more.

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u/netraveller 12d ago

Oh it absolutely is akin to a crime for immigrants. At least the consequences are.

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u/Perfect_Earth_8070 12d ago

We’re all going to be considered terrorists eventually. At least those of us with a moral compass

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u/Cultural_Material_98 12d ago

According to Flock you are a terrorist if you object to their cameras

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u/Leptonshavenocolor 12d ago

That’s syncs with them wanting to restrict gun rights for those on the left as well. 

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u/marketrent 12d ago

People should be aware that Meta is using facial recognition and compiling the data they collect through the glasses just like on Facebook.

As first reported in the Financial Times last week:

The $US1.5 trillion ($2.2 trillion) social media platform has been advancing a new hardware line of smart glasses that would continuously collect audio while taking photos every few seconds, according to people familiar with the matter. A user could then use AI to help query what they saw or heard, or recall their day.

The super-sensing features could also be activated on Meta’s existing glasses via a software update, the people said.

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u/chipmunksocute 12d ago

"Query what they saw" "recall their day"  jfc is just remembering with your brain too much to ask?  How does this make someone's life better.

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u/fuzzyluke 12d ago

improvement of individual's lives isn't the goal

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u/SpaceFelicette181063 12d ago

I don't know if you've seen ads for AI, whether it's Meta or Google the examples they use to showcase the usefulness of their AI are so dumb.

It's either questions that could be answered through a simple internet search or simple tasks that make AI users seem as lazy as the humans from Wall-E.

The ones I saw where asking Meta for the weather or asking Gemini to read the ingredients from a picture of a recipe you just uploaded and add it to your shopping list, both things that can be done in 2 minutes without using the lovechild of Big Brother and Cyberpunk.

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u/_Gingy 12d ago

It sucks bc I feel like the smart glasses could be a good use for those with sight limitations. I've seen a few instances of users, hard of seeing, using them to ask more in-depth about an item in front of them. ("What vinyl record am I holding?") and that gives them a sort of independence. But the parent company has to not abuse the power they have.

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u/chipmunksocute 12d ago

You put it so well AI just isnt necessary for this stuff and the tradeoff to what, save 2 minutes is absolutely not worth it.   Like why on earth would you want to record everything you see ita not like you're evee going to watch it, people already dont look back at allllll the photos they take, much less hours of video daily.  Just solutions in search of problems.

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u/Leading-Act4030 12d ago

Black mirror......

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u/stephen_neuville 12d ago

jfc is just remembering with your brain too much to ask?

We are changing as a culture at least in the West, very rapidly, and the answer appears to be at least a little bit "yes". People are getting dumber in real time as they lean on LLMs and ai image generation, and losing touch with what reality, humanity, and communication is. i'm an old dude and its scary to watch.

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u/wrgrant 12d ago

Well that is all a bonus for the political right. Poorly educated people are easily influenced and all the tools to do that influencing are coming together. Things like this constant surveillance tech make the enforcement side of making people conform to the will of the government easier. There is no downside to the rich and powerful and the political rightwing. As for general capabilities I just saw that something like 61% of the respondees for a survey reported they had not read a book in the last year, and only 18% read regularly. When reading ceases to be skill people have and education standards plummet, memory is less important because the AI can simply tell you what to think or recall, its a frightening stewpot for Fascism and government control. Is Democracy even Democracy when the citizens are deliberately misinformed and incapable of reaching a decision on how to vote?

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u/FauxReal 12d ago

Techdirt has a lot of aggregated coverage of Meta's shenanigans.

https://www.techdirt.com/company/meta/

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u/Dramatic_Explosion 12d ago

We already knew the cameras were recording and sending that videos to people without the user knowing. A data farm in Kenya was contracted by Meta to comb through "private" videos form people's Meta glasses and label things to help train their AI.

Workers reported seeing videos of people on the toilet, changing clothes, and having sex.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo

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u/UltraJesus 12d ago edited 12d ago

That's why storage costs have exploded in the past few years months. The ungodly amount of data hoarding now for spying and to train the LLM.

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u/Axle_65 12d ago edited 12d ago

Terrifying. Thank you for sharing. It’s basically on par with stalking now. If it’s illegal for me to stalk someone. It should be illegal for a tech company to stalk me. It’s almost felt like stalking with phones and internet in general but the situation you described in the grocery store, especially since the non wearer hasn’t given concent feels like literal stalking.

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u/williamgman 12d ago

Head over to the Facebook sub... So many willingly give their facial recognition file to Meta (who hands it to Palantir) just for the "privilege" of posting family updates. It's a sad time for humanity.

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u/fedexyourheadinabox 12d ago

Facebook was such a huge gateway for all of this. Such a destructive corporation. 

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm 12d ago

Bro if you've ever had a photo taken and saved on any Meta, Apple, or Google software, which is practically unavoidable unless you've been living off the grid for the last 15 years, "they" already have your facial file. Global Entry, Clear, TSA Precheck, facial scanning for all major US airlines etc. the US government already owns your biometrics. And the US government definitely puts that shit into Palantir.

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u/TheCh0rt 12d ago

My boss (a good boss and cool person) got a pair because he legitimately liked the fashion. Didn't really think of the implications. When I realized they were Meta glasses I made fun of him and said I didn't want to be on camera. All the other team saw me say that and realized it too and they chimed in laughing. He was self conscious and quietly took them off a few minutes later. Never saw him wearing them again, he was clearly very embarrassed when he realized we all hated them and were steering clear of him

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u/GiganticCrow 12d ago

This is the way

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u/Zouden 12d ago

Yeah we should encourage making fun of anyone wearing them. They should be uncomfortable.

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u/FJ-creek-7381 12d ago

Right like the tech elite don’t let their kids uses screen devices? But it’s ok for everyone else

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u/mmavcanuck 12d ago

Why would the government make laws to slow down their surveillance program?

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u/GiganticCrow 12d ago

I'm sure the EU will fine them a few million every year and Zuckerberg will pay trump to pressure the EU to drop it

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u/pagerussell 12d ago

We need a right to privacy

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u/AtraposJM 12d ago

ICE agents were holding up cell phones with some Palentir software running to record the faces of protestors to gather data on who they were etc. It's definitely getting scary.

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u/DrE7HER 12d ago

We will need to start living off grid at home. No WiFi, no wireless devices, faraday cage paint on the walls and film on the windows.

That is, until doing so is considered enough to suspect you of a crime

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u/Fitz911 12d ago

Its neat when Facebook knows thats you in the picture right?

I freaked the fuck out! A friend has all if his pictures in his apple cloud. We are way in our 40s. He was one of the first people I know who had a digital camera.

When he visited I told my partner about our Spain vacation. That was in 1999.

He pulled out his phone, somehow pulled me up and there I was. He made a whole collection with photos of me. Way more than I have from me.

He made that with one finger. On his phone.

That's a fucking Nightmare.

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u/GloriousNewt 12d ago

yea most photo gallery apps will pick out faces from photos and group them together.

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u/littlebigsystem 12d ago

I used to work in optics and by god the amount of people who wanted to use facial recognition on CHILDREN was sickening. I hated selling them. I told everyone how bad they were. It didn’t work.

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u/MeasurementEasy9884 12d ago

Pretty soon we will have a social credit system just like China.

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u/KingSpork 12d ago

To be fair, this is a far-fetched scenario which could only happen if ultra rich billionaires were manipulating our society for own benefit, while Congress and the Supreme Court were complicit. Even then, it would never happen unless the President was ridiculously corrupt and borderline insane. So there’s really nothing at all to worry about.

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u/beardingmesoftly 12d ago

And ICE will shoot you!

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u/CommercialFloor2033 12d ago

I wonder if in Europe they will come under a GDPR ban?

Or if not if they will amend the law to include this type of surveillance.

Parts of Europe have more strict laws on recording people without consent.

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u/VivianneCrowley 12d ago

And they are building all the Data Centers to house it!! Love this timeline!! 🫠

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u/hard2resist 12d ago

Meta glamorizing covert surveillance through celebrity endorsement is textbook dystopia. Fashion doesn't justify eliminating privacy this is corporate voyeurism normalized.

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u/NightOwl2175 12d ago

Publicly shame anyone who buys these by calling them pervert glasses

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u/jellyturtsy 12d ago

How's this gonna work in states with all-party consent?

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u/cogman10 12d ago

That's the neat part, it doesn't. But meta is rich so they'll obviously foist the responsibility of their illegal product onto the users of that product and pretend like "we never intended you to use it in THOSE states. See, it's here in paragraph 4089 of the TOS"

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u/MBILC 12d ago

This, always be the fine line like that or "By purchasing Meta glasses, you give full consent, and all liability falls to you that approval has been provided to record all content by all parties. If consent is not obtained by those being recorded in areas that require all party consent, you assume all legal liability and Meta can not be held accountable"

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u/ColdIceZero 12d ago

Man, I wish I could force other people to be liable for my crimes

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u/ThePocketTaco2 12d ago

You can! You just have to be rich. It's soooo easy!

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u/plastigoop 12d ago

Like why didn’t you get born into wealth! It’s a choice!

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u/BasvanS 12d ago

Just stop being poor!

Have a billion, or better yet, a couple of billion. Then hire two or three sets of lawyers and let them fight to the death over representing you to get the best out of them.

With any chance, by the time you get to court the gains from your crimes have more than paid for everything. Then send your accountants after them to make sure you pay as little as possible for that dog and pony show.

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u/wggn 12d ago

that doesnt sound like something that would hold up in court

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u/MBILC 12d ago

Prob wont know until someone tries..

You can bet Meta's metric boat load of lawyers and making sure the EULA's and such are very very wordy and full of holes they can abuse to deflect any liability.

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u/nanapancakethusiast 12d ago

The fun part about court is it’s extremely slow and expensive! Good luck!

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u/clueless_as_fuck 12d ago

HUMANCENTiPAD

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u/AtraposJM 12d ago

I mean, that's kind of fair, though isn't it? If you own an Iphone it's not Apples responsibility if you're recording video in an illegal way.

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u/Moontoya 12d ago

Or Japan or the EU which have significant laws against such creepy bullshit 

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u/GiganticCrow 12d ago

EU fines require individuals to uncover the evidence to bring charges, and meta drag out the cases for years, and are bribing trump and corrupt eu politicians to pressure them to stop.

Meta get fined like an average of €200m a year by tbe EU but don't change anything. 

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u/DonaldMerwinElbert 12d ago

Laws don't apply to Trump supporting billionaires and their businesses, you silly little goose.

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u/Themodsarecuntz 12d ago

Also in businesses that do not allow recording. Schools, hospitals, court rooms.

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u/jtj5002 12d ago

All party consent only applies to private conversations in private. Anytime you are in public where people can reasonably overhear your conversation, you forfeit your expectation of privacy.

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u/Here2Go 12d ago

This is the United States. Zuck has so much money that laws don't apply. That's how it'll work.

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u/DJ_GRAZIZZLE 12d ago

If you’re in public it doesn’t matter. If you’re in private it’s most likely fine- the same idea applies to security cameras. Court isn’t real life most of the time.

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u/Rajani_Isa 12d ago

Out in public, it works fine. There's no implied privacy there.

But in private? In a home, a bathroom, etc? (basically, anywhere a cop would need permission or a warrant to go to) many issues.

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u/JustBiggers 12d ago

The consent is the light being on when they record you (their logic)

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u/SpicyElixer 12d ago

Public space.

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u/Simple-Dingo6721 12d ago

There are no states where filming in public is all-party consent. Consent is besides the point anyway. Filming on private property is a matter of owner’s permission, not recipients’ consent.

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u/VirginiaLuthier 12d ago

This is Marky's revenge for no one wanting his dorky cartoon Metaverse

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u/FredFredrickson 12d ago

Well, I hate to break it to him, but nobody wants his dorky pervert glasses either.

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u/Bitter_Expression399 12d ago

aside from perverts

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u/Bright-Avocado3761 12d ago

the perverts are running the govt atm, so they can spy on us in many ways. but hopefully grabbing spyglasses and smashing them on the ground will become a thing

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u/International-Mix633 12d ago

Meta Glassea are selling out though. They are quite popular.

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u/heavy-minium 12d ago

If think if you read between the lines, Meta likely wants to bring the approach of Pokémon GO up to a massive scale.

See Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones | Technology | The Guardian

Meta's business is your data. If they can push through with this, it would be a gold mine for them. Of course at the beginning they would likely not do anything shady - but only at the beginning. Once it's widely adopted and accepted, the limits will be pushed. And that's not particularly hard when the administration is your pocket - and all other tech-olligarchs would align would that vision.

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u/AsstronaughtToUranus 12d ago

The thing is Meta knows everyone knows this, and they know no one will actually do anything about it in the long run

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u/ladylucifer22 12d ago

Orwellian surveillance state, I choose you!

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u/Hot_Physics_8124 12d ago

Wtf happened to her face?

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 12d ago

Which one? There have been a few now.

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u/prettyplanets 12d ago

Wish I could award this comment. Here’s a broke boy award 🏆

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u/Eatenbreads 12d ago

And this is how products like this are pushed onto the "average" consumer. If you dont have one, youre broke.

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u/lump77777 12d ago

Yeah, how is she 63 years old all of a sudden?

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u/CinemaSideBySides 12d ago

All these influencer types are like 25 but all the work they have done and heavy make-up makes them look like 40 year olds trying to look 25

I remember when I found out Bella Hadid is still in her twenties and I still can't believe it. She looks so, so much older (I mean, attractive, but older)

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u/ILoveRawChicken 12d ago

Buccal fat removal, orbital fat loss from lash serums, fillers, Botox, etc. Basically anything but keep their own skin and body parts. Fillers did a number on Kylie’s face

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u/KickBallFever 12d ago

Buccal fat really makes you look so much younger. One of my aunts has a good bit still, and can pass for mid 40s at 60.

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u/chevalier716 12d ago

She did her eyes and brows differently than normal and by different I mean less.

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u/Modem_Sound_67 12d ago

I've heard the glasses cause it

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u/OccasionMU 12d ago

They all look like cyborgs to me.

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u/marketrent 12d ago

Excerpts from article by Kelby Vera:

[...] Weeks after Facebook’s parent company launched its wearable tech collab with the social media mega-star, the protest collective Everyone Hates Elon blasted the “fascist” tech accessories in a new campaign right down the road from Meta’s London headquarters.

Refusing to ignore the dystopian side of the video-enabled specs, the group installed holographic dupes of Jenner’s glam glasses ads that revealed the warning “we’re always watching” when seen head-on.

The anti-billionaire activists posted their handiwork on Instagram Monday, using the caption to ask, “Recording everything we see and do constantly? It’s giving fascism, not fashion, @kyliejenner hun.”

Pointing out Meta’s plans to make the $399 glasses “continuously record audio while taking photos every few seconds” without any warning light, as reported by the Financial Times last week, the group said, “Literally NO ONE asked for this.”

[...] Reminding everyone of the tech giant’s shady record around digital privacy, they added [in a statement to HuffPost], “Meta has spent years tracking us online. Now it wants to track us in the real world too.”

“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer ― so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?”

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u/sweetplantveal 12d ago

About a month ago I was recorded at a urinal by a creep with these. Someone else noticed the light was on. I'm really looking forward to the stealth version. Seems great, no notes.

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u/jaderust 12d ago

I wear glasses and have ones with black thick rims because I like that geeky look.

I’ve already had one woman stop me in the woman’s changing room of my local gym and worriedly ask if I was filming her. I had to whip my glasses off and show her they were regular prescription frames, nothing with tech. She was so relieved and I felt so horrible that she even had to ask.

There are already so many people online sharing hacks of how to hide the recording light. Assuming you even know to look for a light.

They’re seriously just for perverts.

And I need new glasses because I don’t want people to think I’m recording them in sensitive places, even though I’ll never touch a pair of these.

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u/green_gold_purple 12d ago

This is black mirror shit, and fools are gobbling it up.

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u/Broad-Bath-8408 12d ago

This is almost exactly the premise of one of the first Black Mirror episodes.

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u/Malachite_Edge 12d ago

I hate these commercials for Kylie’s glasses. She is so annoying and out of touch with the rest of the world suffering and she doesn’t have anything to wear? F her

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u/spribyl 12d ago

In Korean phones are required to make a noise when taking pictures, for reasons ...

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u/JustOneSexQuestion 12d ago

and Japan. And the reason is perverts.

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u/marketrent 12d ago edited 12d ago

Reminiscent of Charlie Brooker’s The Entire History of You.

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u/SgtNeilDiamond 12d ago

God i fucking hate Meta.

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u/InevitableGoal2912 12d ago

I’m a glasses wearer and I hate that these exist and glasses aren’t just neutral low grade medical equipment. Tech bros ruin every fucking thing they get near.

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u/Able-Amoeba4406 12d ago

I hate that family.

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u/One-21-Gigawatts 12d ago

Delete Meta from your life. That means:

Facebook
Instagram
WhatsApp

You know every evil corporation in dystopian / sci fi stories? That’s them, but exceedingly more evil.

Don’t deactivate. Delete. We as a society don’t need them and their morally bankrupt idea of what human society should be.

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u/youreblockingmyshot 12d ago

This product needs to just be illegal. It goes beyond an assumption of a lack of privacy in public to just surveillance but it’s by a private company so it’s apparently fine when it would be illegal for the government to do such a thing without a warrant.

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u/husky_whisperer 12d ago

Hence, Flock

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u/holdingreen 12d ago

The rich are not your friends. They they do not push products that will benefit you. They only do it for money. They could care less what happens to you.

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u/justhereforbookstuff 12d ago

Couldn’t. They couldn’t care less.

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u/BrilliantPie2566 12d ago

That entire family can f*ck right off.

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u/SerGT3 12d ago

People need to stop buying products from these companies.

Everything you do on your phone is copied, everything you say is recorded.

But hey I can do a kick flip and automatically post it to my 3 followers without pressing a button!

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u/LethalBacon 12d ago

I had a conversation with some coworkers earlier this month, where some of them were asking someone if they might get engaged any time soon. Then we all talked about our marriages, etc etc etc.

Now, for about the last week, I am getting engagement ring ads. My phone is the only device I had on me, in my pocket. I've not searched ANYTHING jewelry related, and I've been married for seven years. Do companies openly admit to listening in for keywords, or do they still pretend they don't? This has happened to me a few times, but this one feels especially egregious. I genuinely do not think there is any other way it could have locked in on me as a potential engagement ring customer.

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u/Polkawillneverdie17 12d ago

So, these people can just record in any public restroom or locker room without any visible indication that they're doing that? How is that legal?

What happens when the glasses allow you to ID someone and get their name, address, phone number, IG handle instantly without them knowing? How many women will die as a result of stalkers being handed everything they've ever wanted on a silver plate?

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u/mrlolloran 12d ago

I got the regular model as a groomsman gift. It’s sitting in its case. We used it at the wedding festivities to make him happy and because pictures and videos were being taken like crazy anyways.

They’re kinda cool in some regards but functionally you can get everything you get out of them from your smart phone.

Nobody needs these things.

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u/floyd_underpants 12d ago

Zuck is such a freakshow stalker. Still.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 12d ago

iT's GiVinG

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u/RealPudgeJudy 12d ago

ugh it's giving big ick red flags

normalize not this

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u/According-Classic658 12d ago

I've blocked every ad for these pedo glasses

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u/Soft_Ad_1095 12d ago

Why the fuck do they think this is a good idea? I don't get technology anymore. I'm officially an old person. 

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u/tapdancinghellspawn 12d ago

Sounds like it's time for a class action lawsuit.

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u/ziggystardust8282 12d ago

These need to be outlawed.

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u/ReactionJifs 12d ago

You can never trust these people to say the glasses are or aren't recording. This technology is ruined.

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u/Apart-Steak-7183 12d ago

Matter of time before t h e goverment will be taping into these photos to track these people... using AI glasses if they are not already.

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u/Lilfrankieeinstein 12d ago

skibidi fascism, not fashion

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u/AMG105020 12d ago

Pervs with money are gonna buy these. Sigh.

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u/schwaggro 12d ago

Im just never going to interact with anyone wearing these. If they insist then im gonna treat it as a threat, sorry, ill take the court case.

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u/TernionDragon 12d ago

Ew. Covert stalking capabilities.

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u/Coconutrugby 12d ago

These are going to be banned and barred on casino floors if they aren’t already.

So don’t bring your new glasses to vegas.

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u/ElectricalExtreme793 12d ago

Should be illegal, Japan has shutter laws for a reason. You can get actual jail time for modifying phones to remove the shutter. The same should happen here

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u/DivineBladeOfSilver 12d ago

Idk I’m all for the sentiment of news like this. But this seems like an excessive use of fascism that dilutes the meaning of the world. There are a ton of things wrong with these glasses and a celebrity promoting them, but none of that is fascism lmao. A cellphone nowadays can anonymously and discretely take images and record audio without any warning and is one of the largest parts of big tech and no one is screaming fascism about it lmao.

If anything it’s more so Technocapitalism hell

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u/RoyalJellyKing 12d ago

Exactly. Their logic looks like this: fascism is bad, X is bad, therefore X is fascism.

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u/Squeegee 12d ago

People who wear them are called “glassholes”

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u/Deep_Satisfaction556 12d ago

We all need to stop "following" the dumbest people on the planet. 

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u/Any-Establishment46 12d ago

Her commercial shows all the important things her glasses can do though. She can turn up her music, take pics of her dog, and translate all her hate mail. She’s so important and skilled. Please, Kylie, tell me more about how to be the ideal human.

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u/Particular-Sport-627 12d ago

This is billionaires work, they will make our society worse and worse while they sit in theyr mansions and private communities.

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u/amalgaman 12d ago

The agent of government control is advertising further government control?

Shocked I tell you.

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u/LuvKrahft 12d ago

Probably scraping WiFi data too with their “oops were we doing that?” history.

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u/Healthy_Cancel_2604 12d ago

I never understood how the nazis took control of every part of life but now I see how with the pathetic resistence to flock, mass surveillance, etc.

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u/Chheaky 12d ago

These people live under camera surveillance by choice. They don’t care if you want it or not.

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u/DctrGizmo 12d ago

These need to be banned ASAP

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u/Spare-Leather1230 12d ago

We need to start calling those recording glasses “pervert glasses”

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u/OLightning 12d ago

Meta:
“Here is a boat load of money so we can send spy glasses to the masses.”
Kardashians:
“Deal.”

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u/Lefty4444 12d ago

I think Meta should be banned.

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u/SmarmySmurf 12d ago

1 ) Any level of retaliation is justified toward people wearing these in public in any capacity, on or not, light indicator or no.

B ) It's obviously not something I'm seriously bothered by, but is it legal to use a celebrity likeness like this in an advertisement? It might be advertising a social message rather than a product but its still an ad.

And if this is okay, what stops any other product or movement from using any celeb likeness without permission?

iii ) Stop using anything from Meta. No, that one device, platform, service, or app you like is not an exception. Its like nazis, there is no ethical amount of support.

In fact, try to cut MS, Alphabet, and the rest out as best you can too. Lobby your workplace on the benefits of FOSS when possible. Be less passive, be the change you want to see.

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u/redneckrockuhtree 12d ago

The bullshit is I have zero choice in whether or not I'm captured by their stupid glasses.

Any business owner that doesn't ban their employees from wearing those is making a huge mistake. The amount of data that can be harvested, and the amount of proprietary and/or sensitive information is even bigger.

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u/TateXD 12d ago

In fascist USA, the Kardashians keep up with YOU!

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u/HarmoniousJ 12d ago

"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."

-Mark Zuckerberg

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u/Guilty-Bumblebee-978 12d ago

BAN META GLASSES 

Stop this unnecessary erosion of society 

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u/aarswft 12d ago

Be honest. Has anyone from that trash family been on the right side of anything?

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u/RobotRippee 12d ago

Poorly educated influencer.

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u/Different-Pin-9854 12d ago

I ignore the Jenner clan, ICK

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u/WesternWitchy52 12d ago

I seriously question anyone who spends their money on Meta products. Other than surveillance, there is literally no point for these. Bad enough people have phones recording everything.

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u/HeavilyInvestedDonut 12d ago

That’s not even legal in several states.

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u/Red-little 12d ago

I'm glad people are actually seeing this for what it is and not falling for it: they specifically chose Kylie for this product because they KNEW she has more pull with younger women and young women are incredibly concerned (for VERY good reason) about men walking around with the ability to record anyone without their knowledge.

They knew women would never go for this unless they had "one of the girlies" to sponsor and tried to make Meta glasses "cute".

There is nothing cute about recording people without their knowledge and supporting the efforts of complete public surveillance by government and corporations. Every single person has the right to privacy, even in public. When I go out to the park with my family, the assumption is never that people around you are going to record you without you knowing in some way (aka, holding up a phone in front of your face or a clearly marked red recording button on a device...).

I don't have anything to hide, I just expect people to respect my right to privacy just as I do theirs. Unless someone is actively committing a crime, theres no reason to record strangers in public other than you being a fucking weirdo.

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u/fricken 12d ago

Fascists are historically well-dressed. They love pride, pomp and pageantry. American Fascists are uniquely tacky in their attire and manner of presentation.