A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
Yeah I understand hating the Meta glasses, but what, are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild? This is a small piece of a larger problem and I’m just not sure assaulting a stranger on the subway is the way to go about it.
are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild?
Yes.
Yeah my first thought was “you know what? Now that you mention it, I’d be more than happy with that. I didn’t even think of it as an option but yeah, sure, let’s give it a go”
I’m all for this but we should start with all of the cameras owned by businesses and the government. If anyone at all should be allowed to record in public it is we the people.
I think there’s even an achievement for doing that.
That is so Project Mayhem.
be the change you wish to see in the world
Start with your phone then.
If I could get a phone without one I would.
I don’t recall ever having used the damn thing, all it does is stick out like a wart making the phone unsightly and unnecessarily thick.
And the other, even more useless one is just poking an extremely irritating hole on the screen.
They’re probably scratched beyond any usability anyway, since for some reason cases and screen protectors refuse to cover them.
If you want a phone without camera, wifi or audio, just install Linux on it /s
Being stuck inside a system does not make one a hypocrite to criticize it from within the system. Nor would one act of self immolation achieve anything but dying pointlessly in a fire. The prison guards will merely shovel your remains into a bucket. People like you will continue to goad other miserable prisoners into more pointless acts of self destruction for short term personal gratification.
We’re so deep into the technological surveillance state that people like you can’t even see that there was once a world outside these prison walls. You’ve accepted your fate. Maybe you we’re born into it. Maybe it’s been so long that you’ve forgotten it’s not normal to have all this forced upon us. In this world where surveillance state technology is required, smartphones are now integrated into critical needs of daily life. From government to financial institutions to workplace. You cannot live without it short of going inawoods Ted K style. At which point the prison guards are likely to descend upon your log cabin with the full military force of the state and corporate apparatus.
Ultimately these acts of immolation achieve nothing against the system itself but demonstrate the futility that we’re all stuck inside a prison. Seems like you thought you had a really clever retort there. You don’t. It’s you who are the fool.
That’s not “in the wild”. Your camera phone on the other hand…
The second you touch someone else’s you better believe they are going for yours.
If you think that someone else’s is in the wild, but yours isn’t, you are just a useless hypocrite.
Are you explaining yourself?
Humans are shittier, mobile cameras, so I agree. The planet needs a rest from humanity.
Skibidi are the good guys?
are we going to destroy every camera we find in the wild
If it is from a mega corp that is known for spying on people: absolutely
They have no right for cameras in public.
They have no right for cameras in public.
I’m pretty sure they do. That comes along with the word “public”. This sounds like ICE telling observers to stop filming.
Collecting the footage from thousands of cameras and turning it into a giant surveillance system to track everyone is a different matter, and that’s what needs to be made illegal.
They’re the same picture
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Even then there’s some gray area. If you’re in Times Square people are going to be taking pictures and videos of themselves.
When Google Glass was a thing people with assistive vision technologies were being attacked too.
I find it interesting that we only know of this because someone recorded the guy.
He recorded himself after the incident.
Every little bit helps! If we all pitch in, many hands make light work!
Very true, this is why we need people advocating for privacy law. I think those responding don’t understand I’m on their side, I’m just approaching it from a constructive point of view.
Is that an option? If so, yes
How many flock cameras and ring cameras did she pass that day lol (has NYC banned them?)
If we normalize assaulting people that want to walk around with cameras on their face being creepy then less people will walk around doing that. Sometimes the solution is as simple as some minor violence.
Are you for real? Or just a Meta bot? Can’t you see the difference between a camera in a phone, that is more or less obvious when pointed to film a person, and a camera mounted in glasses? For real?
Or are you suggesting that if we have let phones with cameras be, we should tolerate another escalation in the fight against privacy?
Please let me know which is it?! Im really curious.
You’re missing the point entirely.
A phone in a breast pocket doesn’t look all that out of place, especially if the person has very tight jeans on, but it’s quite effective for filming.
To be clear, I’m not OP, and I’m not even necessarily saying you are wrong, but as with most things I think our energy is being pointed in the wrong direction. I care more about the governments and corporations with their ability to record and cross reference images and videos from basically everywhere much more than I care about an individuals ability to do so. Even our concerns with an individuals ability to do so are often a result of that individual’s ability to amplify the harmful aspects through the use of one of the aforementioned’s unchecked power.
If we aren’t afraid to fuck up some people wearing Meta glasses that are being dick heads, then let’s also not be afraid to fuck up the government and corpo forms of it as well.
Love to see it.
Honest question,do you have a similar feeling when a person knocks the phone out of a person’s hand.I see no difference, if you are in public you should assume that you are being recorded.
Do you work for Meta PR?
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Lol,fuck meta this ain’t about them, I find it bizare that people get upset that they are being recorded in public, and why being recorded with stupid fucking glasses is somehow worse, if someone wants to secretly record people there are much cheaper and more discreet options.
The story is literally about Meta glasses.
Is it? Story I read was about a lady assaulting a man on a train.
Why, though?
Honestly I’m almost certain that it is staged, but her side of the story isn’t stated. So we don’t know why.
I wish you were recording me so I could smack the phone out your hand
She is a hero
Lol.
Shut up nerd
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“I was making a funny noise people were honestly crying laughing at,” he claimed in the caption of a followup video. “She was the only person annoyed.
Dude tried turning a commuter train into a content factory. Fuck that. Hire participants. Pay people.
That’s when I start playing Disney music.
We’ve all met that kid in first grade.
It was not a funny noise, I’m sure of it.
Some cashier at McDonalds will probably rat her out Luigi-style.
like the google glass was used for porn as soon as it was released, and then shortly google stopped making them.
the entire internets life cycle has always been:
- new tech
- new porn delivery option
- widespread use of new tech
- profit
- repeat
To be fair,some of the earliest examples we have in all media is “porn”.
A seeming eternity later, Meta has attempted to revive the idea with its Ray-Ban Meta glasses. While it’s arguably a significant technological leap over Google’s early forays
Duh, Google Glass was 2013. A brand new one that Meta pumped an obscene amount of money into had better be much improved to aid the government’s warrantless surveillance programs on Americans
Which is what it is, just another platform for intelligence gathering that Meta sells to the government
…and not only are morons voluntarily wearing them, they’re paying for the privilege to do so
“eth8n” - Ethaten?
He’s the 9th Ethernet port
Etheightn.
Meta tells the people that buy these glasses that they “only record audio and video when you tell them to” but that turned out to be an absolute lie. It’s always looking, always listening, and people shouldn’t use these fuckin corpo people trackers and advertisement machines.
Yes, it’s only acceptable for the state to monitor people in public.
I don’t think either entities should be performing intrusive mass surveillance.
@VoidJuiceConcentrate@midwest.social @BrikoX@lemmy.zip listening, sure… just like all our phones and smart home speakers and watches tend to be these days… but what’s your evidence it is always looking? I don’t think that is currently the case but I certainly wouldn’t rule out them doing it in the future once it becomes less of an issue for the battery life of these.
my phone ain’t listening, but that’s cause I use grapheneos.
as for the evidence the glasses are always watching/listening
https://gizmodo.com/meta-is-turning-its-ray-bans-into-a-surveillance-machine-for-ai-2000596395
I’ve always wanted a pair of glasses with a cool hud, that tells me the time and weather and shows me what song im playing or a text i got. Is that so evil?
As long as it doesn’t have a camera, no. But all of them do, so yes.
how is this news?
That she did something about it, and is being hailed as a hero. Both rare.
fair enough, shame really does have it’s place…US could use more of it in the right areas
Shame is never gonna stop those guys. Broken cameras will.
Reminds me of this story. Some guy went into a Macdonalds in Paris, which for some reason had security guards, and they evidently tried to forcibly remove his G-glasses, which were surgically attached to his head. I believe there was a rumor that the place was mobbed up.
I even let her sit down when she got on the train at 42nd street, and I continued to stand.
Oh wow, everyone look at this chivalrous hero - he was standing when she got on the subway, and graciously “let” a random woman sit. It’s not like he gave up a seat for her, but he still thinks that by “continuing to stand” he somehow did something special that she should be grateful to him for.
I know seats can be a rare opportunity on the NYC subway, especially around 42nd St. But to think that by standing you’re somehow entitled to more respect than anyone else is absurd.
Funny how she was standing in the video he posted though. In a really pretty relaxed position too so it doesn’t look like she just got up.
Oh no, god forbid someone records her in the most recorded state on earth.
