• JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    5 hours ago

    sure, but there the spying is the purpose, whereas with the glasses it’s incidental.

    you don’t buy such gadgets if you don’t intend to spy, but people would buy meta glasses for other reason, and meta being able to spy on you is just a side-effect. Plus it’ a matter of scale, this has the potential of being much more prominent than some spy camera.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
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      3 hours ago

      “Incidental”—this is Meta we’re talking about, and you can exchange them with any other technofacist and it still applies.

      But I wholly agree with you that they know exactly what they are doing. This is how they get people to “participate” in their platforms and algorithms, whether they want to or not.

    • Zak@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Meta spying is its own issue, and I think a very legitimate concern.

      I’m understanding the concern the article mentions about smart glasses in general (independent of who manufactures them) being the user recording people. That’s what people seemed to be upset about when Google Glass launched as well.