An interesting conflict between a Dutch media creator Roel Maalderink (together with Bits of Freedom) and Meta regarding Meta glasses.

[mahryekuh@hachyderm.io]

An interesting conflict between a Dutch media creator Roel Maalderink (together with Bits of Freedom) and Meta regarding Meta glasses.

The guy made a video wearing the glasses outside the Meta office in Amsterdam.

The video showed several Meta employees reacting negatively to the glasses, and even asking multiple times if he was filming (showing that even they couldn’t see if the glasses are active.)

Instagram took the video offline, which is the first time this creator had a takedown of one of his videos.

I hope this goes viral beyond The Netherlands.

Edit: Added a Fedi post by Roel himself.

https://mastodon.social/@Roelmaalderink/117327040550433696

#privacy #Meta

[mahryekuh@hachyderm.io]

Dutch article about the situation:

https://nos.nl/artikel/2632271-meta-haalt-satirische-video-roel-maalderink-over-camerabril-offline

[mahryekuh@hachyderm.io]

And I almost forgot, the video is still on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHKhYL3is5o&feature=youtu.be

[h5e@tech.lgbt]

@mahryekuh (hate to be that girl, but the video could arguably be considered in violation of the terms. of course, usually they do fuck all if a video does, but…)

[mahryekuh@hachyderm.io]

@h5e They didn’t know what the result (the video) would be at the time, though, which is exactly the case for anyone when someone wears the glasses near them.

[h5e@tech.lgbt]

@mahryekuh no but they were clearly annoying people and seeking a provocation. And not knowing what the video will be is hardly an excuse for that.

[casparvdburgh@mastodon.social]

@h5e @mahryekuh I am in favour in making allowances for annoying people that are allied with Meta, the perpetrator of enormous privacy violations, rotten to the core and profiting from this heinous technology

[h5e@tech.lgbt]

@casparvdburgh @mahryekuh Oh I do agree