New posters are going up in London - love them.
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@Wen excellent. Am going to assume that Made by Donkeys have something to do with it.
@scattershot I thought so, but apparently it is by a group calling itself ‘We hate Elon’
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New posters are going up in London - love them.
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@Wen Signed and letter to MP asking to support if it gets presented to Parliament!! -
New posters are going up in London - love them.
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@Wen Also known as pervert glasses.
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@Wen Also known as pervert glasses.
@Pamela1960 And the wearers Glassholes
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New posters are going up in London - love them.
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@Wen I love these ads. Please bring them to Germany!
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@Wen I love these ads. Please bring them to Germany!
@lordkhan I am sure some enterprising souls will
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There is a petition to the UK parliament asking for them to be banned.
@Wen I'm so torn on this. I feel like they need to be licensable for the blind and partially sighted. But your average pervert has no business walking around with them
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@Wen I'm so torn on this. I feel like they need to be licensable for the blind and partially sighted. But your average pervert has no business walking around with them
@tmcfarlane I quite agree - they can have a purpose. I am not visually disabled but I can imagine the difference audio interpreted vision would be a massive advantage for some (and I am sure some people who are might be able to comment). But as you say that does not require their use as a free for all image capture system to be used covertly and linked to the undressing shite that Meta and X are playing (amongst other things) with should be lawful.
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New posters are going up in London - love them.
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I like the allusion to Carpenters "They Live"
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I like the allusion to Carpenters "They Live"
@desatyr Interesting warning on the top of the page I just looked at though.
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@alterelefant Ahh well - Freudian slip:-)
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@tmcfarlane I quite agree - they can have a purpose. I am not visually disabled but I can imagine the difference audio interpreted vision would be a massive advantage for some (and I am sure some people who are might be able to comment). But as you say that does not require their use as a free for all image capture system to be used covertly and linked to the undressing shite that Meta and X are playing (amongst other things) with should be lawful.
@Wen @tmcfarlane I’m completely against them as there is another issue here that gets lost in the discussion about pervo-glasses and consent: for them to work *as intended* for people who are visually impaired and can be said to have a legitimate need, the images need to be uploaded to and interpreted by Meta’s AI. Som of us have made a deliberate choice to avoid all Meta products, and do not wish to have our images (or the sounds of our voices, for that matter) on any Meta servers for any reason. People using these glasses have no way of knowing who around them has taken such a stand, unless they seek active consent from everyone around them before using the glasses.
Now, smart glasses from ethical companies may have an important role to play in increasing accessibility. But as far as I know, those don’t exist yet.
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New posters are going up in London - love them.
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@Wen They were recently used during the police action in Delhi
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New posters are going up in London - love them.
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@Wen Very creative pushback against wearable surveillance.
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@Wen They were recently used during the police action in Delhi
@Wen some footage... https://mstdn.plus/@kapil_pilankar/116992116877906485
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New posters are going up in London - love them.
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@Wen Apparently Meta keeps making it harder to hide the recording LED. Although I'm sure there's a special firmware for the likes of Zucc and company.
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@Wen Apparently Meta keeps making it harder to hide the recording LED. Although I'm sure there's a special firmware for the likes of Zucc and company.
@AgentOrange96 Or even a little Tippex?
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@Wen I'm so torn on this. I feel like they need to be licensable for the blind and partially sighted. But your average pervert has no business walking around with them
@tmcfarlane @Wen legally mandate them to be bright orange, IMO.
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@Wen @tmcfarlane I’m completely against them as there is another issue here that gets lost in the discussion about pervo-glasses and consent: for them to work *as intended* for people who are visually impaired and can be said to have a legitimate need, the images need to be uploaded to and interpreted by Meta’s AI. Som of us have made a deliberate choice to avoid all Meta products, and do not wish to have our images (or the sounds of our voices, for that matter) on any Meta servers for any reason. People using these glasses have no way of knowing who around them has taken such a stand, unless they seek active consent from everyone around them before using the glasses.
Now, smart glasses from ethical companies may have an important role to play in increasing accessibility. But as far as I know, those don’t exist yet.
> Now, smart glasses from ethical companies may have an important role to play in increasing accessibility. But as far as I know, those don’t exist yet.
Last time when I was posting on 'pervert glasses', specifically the meta/rayban thing, I came to discuss accessiblity aspects with @elettrona who deliberately chose to avoid Meta, and found a good company in https://letsenvision.com
Their careful design makes bystanders aware what the glasses are doing. I do not know how they deal with cloud connection, but I see that they partner with Google.
