There already is an APP to help the blind with what is in front of them, but it's not fed to a META server. once Meta sold your data once, paid the fine, and did it again, why would anyone trust them ever? There are existing APPS. I get anonymous BE MY EYES messages, like, are these pants clean, or which is the button for this feature?
I have no idea who, or where I am helping, I just answer them when they are directed to me, including a description of their surroundings. Don't sell your soul to META, and Cambridge Analytical And Palantir
and police depts, or ICE agents..

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

Creepy as fuck.

Mark is a voyeur, always has been.

So this is just more of the same.

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

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.

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

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.

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."

@aramba

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