First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop!

[meanidea@mastodon.social]

@danyork This probably less about the privacy of their workers and more about preventing pricing research.

[ozone89@techhub.social]

@danyork guess you missed the "no glassholes" movement back in 2014

https://hackaday.com/2014/06/05/fight-the-google-glass-cyborgs-with-glasshole-sh/

[cyon@ennexis.de]

@danyork
Respect

[shadedlady@mstdn.social]

@danyork i hope they make an exception for blind people that use these as ectr help with the be my eyes app

[lost_in_chaos@mstdn.social]

@danyork

@aramba

[ovoao@mastodon.social]

@danyork

I feel pity for the lost souls that have to take off their prescription meta ray bans at this shop, and are forced to blindstumble through the aisles trying to fingerguess what they're holding. "Errr... Excuse me, how much is this banana?" "Sir, this a sex shop not a grocery store."

[hans_zelf@mas.to]

@danyork I run an app on my phone that sounds an alarm whenever meta glasses come near me.

[lukefromdc@kolektiva.social]

@danyork

If this was my shop, I would keep the sign but add an "except blind customers" note to it. Someone doing price research (an adverse party) has lots of cheaper and harder to detect spy cam options.

Allowing this use would however require having nothing in the shop that could put me or another person in danger if passed to Meta.

Use of these glasses by a sighted person I consider absolutely intolerable. On the other hand, any thing that can pass visual data to someone who has lost use of their eyes might be the difference between being their able to continue their life or not.

Someone needs to come up with a hack to allow blind folks to use these as eyes without passing data around them to Meta, who is sure to abuse it.

This could be done either of two ways. One is to hack the firmware to connect to an activist-owned server that does not store user data instead of Meta. Store only maps from OpenStreetMap etc, and process the video with a program that can identify clear corridors indoors and send that data back to the user. Do not store it.

The other approach would be to use a connection to a local computer with enough processing power to turn raw video into navigational directions. Hopefully a laptop in a backpack could not handle that.

Problem with a special version of these glasses sold for use by the blind would be sale (and thus PRICING) as "medical devices." Nobody would be able to afford them. Also zero advantage if the data is still handled by a corporate server.

A hacked set of these on the other hand, connected to a phone or laptop to run the software instead of sending it to Meta, and maybe inscribed text on the glasses saying "I am blind-these are my eyes" could do wonders.

[spirit@cybernetic.monster]

@starraven @danyork If you brought it into a public restroom to record you might even make a sex offender registry.

How about respecting private property and following the rules of the establishment. Or is that too challenging.

[mazigazi@dobbs.town]

@danyork a simple “no assholes” sign does the same thing

[starraven@mastodon.scot]

@Spirit @danyork

If an establishment is against me taking precautions against their potential harms towards me, they definitely don't have to worry about having me as a customer.

[frang@meow.social]

@danyork good.. shun the next (and all) iteration(s) of glassholes.

[feliks@chaos.social]

@danyork there's a nice ISO 7010 P044

[sh41@androiddev.social]

@danyork if you've been acting long enough, you do remember the "Glassholes" when Google glass was originally unveiled back in 2013

[feliks@chaos.social]

@danyork available on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7010

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@danyork We obviously don't frequent the same strip clubs

[synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net]

@danyork I'd feel more comfortable seeing a fellow customer in a restaurant with holstered pistol than I would than one wearing those panopticon goggles. safer

[rasta@zeroes.ca]

@mazigazi @danyork
I thought I read *MAGA GLASSES* which would be the same thing

[elfin@mstdn.social]

@danyork FAcebook was founded on the idea of being creepy as fuck and stalking folk.

Creepy as fuck.

Mark is a voyeur, always has been.

So this is just more of the same.

[wiredfire@mstdn.social]

@frang @danyork I agree with the sentiment BUT do consider that tech like this is utterly *transformative* for those with visual impairments. Was speaking with a guy the other day with a form of macular degeneration and it had given him so much. Not that that’s why they exist, but let’s not be ignorant of the minority for which these can be incredible.

Now if only we could get the tech from places that aren’t abusive of the data collected..