Harvard students turn Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses into a surveillance nightmare

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/tech-24/20241004-harvard-students-turn-meta-s-ray-ban-smart-glasses-into-a-surveillance-nightmare

16 Comments

  1. >merely looking at someone’s face will bring up their name, address, age, biography and any other information available on online databases.

    This is just the logical conclusion of what Meta made this product to do. Next year this will probably be touted as a generally available feature not requiring any hacks or jailbreaking.

  2. Folks need to accept they’re being watched 24/7, by commercial/government/private interests. And their movement/location/meta data is being collected, stored, and shared without their consent.

    If you don’t like this, then limit your digital footprint. Limit your exposure to society — avoid retail stores that use bluetooth radios to precisely track your mobile device’s movement, avoid concerts where they use AI facial recognition to ban customers…..you know, just stay home and not use a phone or computer.

    You all KNEW this was the end result of mostly unregulated tech use in a late-stage Capitalistic system. Such is the price you pay for Instant Grams and The Face Books.

  3. I’m frankly surprised this technology isn’t being employed by law enforcement. Or maybe that’s the next stop on this nightmare train.

  4. FYI you’ve been surveilled for quite some time now lol. This is not really doing anything that’s not already an intrinsic part of public spaces.

  5. Oceanbreeze871 on

    There’s a sci fi comic called “private eye” set in the future. Gen Z society wears compete and ornate animal, monster etc masks and costumes on a regular basis to evade pervasive facial recognition technology.

  6. MarathonRabbit69 on

    These things are just google glass. Weird that everyone is so hot for them when they hated glass