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Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

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  1. jimbo456 · · focus · HN ↗
    We need to move beyond just banning these glasses - all smart glasses of all kinds - to breaking up these companies. Undo the acquisitions of Insta and Whatsapp - I don't care that will be expensive, thats a shareholders problem.
    1. acd · · focus · HN ↗
      We should together stop calling devices which film in dressing / locker rooms smart.

      These devices record video & sound track serve Ads and do Data fusion

      What if you took a cam corder to a locker room? People would be upset, that is not allowed. That would not be nice. This is not nice either

      1. nnutter · · focus · HN ↗
        I don't like it but it's totally normal, especially for youth, to have their cell phones out in locker rooms. Targeting only glasses with this concern is largely out of touch with current behavior.
        1. ohrus · · focus · HN ↗
          That isn't normal and it's actively enforced against in gyms and pools where I live.

          Glasses are passively recording. Recording with a phone is active (for the most part). You need to take it out and point it at what you are recording...

          1. tuckerman · · focus · HN ↗
            > That isn't normal

            Every gym I've been to is full of people with phones out in the locker room, from cheap chain gyms to the nicer athletic club I currently go to. My experience is much closer to GP.

            > Glasses are passively recording

            All the smart glasses I know of have a light on when recording. My phone does not and can be much more discreet (subject to the fact that everyone has a phone out already).

            I agree that if a location is actively banning phone use patrons should absolutely also be asked to take off smart glasses.

            1. dns_snek · · focus · HN ↗
              > All the smart glasses I know of have a light on when recording.

              that light can be easily disabled

              <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcmag.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;modders-can-remove-the-recording-light-from-metas-smart-glasses-for-a-price" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcmag.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;modders-can-remove-the-recording-...

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