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

[danyork@mastodon.social]

First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.

#Meta #MetaGlasses #AR #privacy #surveillance #Vermont

[cresssalad@mastodon.social]

@danyork

I can only imagine whats going on the meta servers as someone goes down the high street wearing these - "person x identified via facebook face recognition, walking with person b - known and 1 other child also known, 1 adult unknown... etc etc... unknowns passed to human team for categorisation"

That company and its CEO makes my skin crawl, IMHO totally unlawful data collection and use in public!

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@danyork This is beautiful.

[jmmaok@mastodon.online]

@danyork

At a local art and craft fair last year, I saw several signs that photos were not allowed. (Those of you who go to more events like this have probably seen a lot more of these signs...) I assume this was people trying to avoid having cheap copies of their creations mass produced. Not sure how effective that was for them, but Meta glasses can only be making the situation worse.

[starraven@mastodon.scot]

@danyork

Classic spy pen it is, then.

Sorry, but in this day and age, evidence is protection.

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@danyork Meta's owner will whine with his orange friend and the shops with such ban will be issued a cease and desist order all over the American Reich. Those abroad will face new tariffs.

[derrydavis@techhub.social]

@danyork faraday cages for all!

[anantagd@ieji.de]

@danyork I bet they have lots of touchscreen only kiosks in their shop #blind

[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.