cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47704486
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47704486
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
They removed it and are looking at masking it better and will reinstall it after it’s hidden and only Meta can spy on people and the data will be available for all agencies that want it.
Erosion of public opinion has always been the plan. I did a double take recently when I found out that back in 2017, Mozilla adding telemetry was something that people actually were offended by. Unfortunately, people stopped being offended by it, and nobody noticed that the telemetry experts were from the Facebook company, and soon that innocent data collection turned into an ad network.
We need to go back to treating these people the same way Google Glass users were treated back in the 2010s. They were Glassholes then. They’re surveillance freaks today. They should be shunned by society. The nicest thing you should do to somebody wearing these surveillance glasses is to politely tell them that you are uncomfortable around their weird behavior.
I’m curious as to how people were actually using Google Glass in 2013. The only place I saw one then was at a programming meetup. I’m quite sure people weren’t regularly running the camera continuously because that drains the battery in a hurry and overheats it even faster.
Source: I bought a new old stock Glass XE-C this year. They’re $50 on Ebay. I’m working on a navigation app for it because I want heads-up cycling directions.
Break their shit and tell them to go fuck themselves sounds about what we should be doing. Make it so not okay that others like them get scared.
“We see everything - from living rooms to naked bodies,” one worker reportedly said.
He must revel in looking like an unequivocal douche. You don’t just roll out of bed looking like that–that is intentional
They’ll end up keeping it entirely server side so someone tearing down the software on the glasses themselves won’t find it to report on it.
And they‘re probably already doing it.
“We can just collect pieces of telemetry from the 50,000 other data collection mechanisms we have installed on the glasses and then reassemble it server side where we have the AI set up to fuck everyone on the planet
“You didn’t think that this was the only way we were fucking everyone on the planet did you? Bwa ha ha ha”