In January, the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism unit sent out a memo warning police officers about a new potential “security and counterintelligence” threat: Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
The memo directed officers to “conduct thorough inspections of all eyewear permitted within inmate cells” and cautioned that people who have been arrested could use these glasses, equipped with small cameras and microphones, to record inside police facilities. The memo cited two examples of such videos posted on social media.
“The ability to covertly record inside a law enforcement or detention facility, could result in a security risk if proprietary information about cell layouts, camera placements, or officer patrol/site protection routines are released,” the memo read.
Honestly a valid concern for anybody
That’s why they’re worried about them??…. That’s a huge ass obvious red flag if we’ve ever seen one
For recording in cells, the glasses would be caught by the regular scanners used at various security boundaries including upon entry to custody, at least every time I’ve been detained. Is that not normal in the US?
I mean, critical support to Meta I guess. They finally figured out a real use case for their glasses. Albeit a very limited one because there’s already hidden cameras people can wear on their body, all of which are easily detectable when they search you before chucking you into a cell.
Oh, no. That’s terrible. Nobody should ever be recording the police… It might catch them breaking a law or two /s
“The ability to covertly record inside a law enforcement or detention facility, could result in a security risk if proprietary information about cell layouts, camera placements, or officer patrol/site protection routines are released,” the memo read.
what a load of absolute shit. the devices could open them up to the legal consequences of their illegal actions and abuse.
shame meta is focused on equipping the perverts and creeps instead of the blind and exposing corruption and abuse.
Any inmate leaving the facility could describe all of that without glasses.
and no-one would believe them because they are a criminal without any evidence.
proprietary information about cell layouts, camera placements, or officer patrol/site protection routines are released
All semi-valid concerns. Is anybody else smothering from the overwhelming mass of concerns between-the-lines here?
Someone with a good memory and reasonable drawing skills could get all that info without needing the glasses. Besides that, how many of those items could be discovered with a FOIA request? I’m sure building plans and stuff are filed with the county permitting office.
Boo hoo, go cry about it, ACAB
Oh no, that would be going tooo Farr…
Dead ass I wish the worse for many in power.
One of the few things they’d be good for
There are other hidden recording devices maybe they already check for all those.
META being used for good? IDK, sounds far fetched…
“secretly”. They aren’t exactly subtle.
Remember when body cams were meant to protect the police from accused wrongdoing?
Now anytime a body cam is not worn or activated it means the cops are planning to or are actively engaging in hurting someone.
Huh, finally a use for Meta smart glasses I can get behind.
That story reads exactly how I would draft a Meta PR campaign to diffuse opposition to those surveillance glasses.
people that weren’t panicking about “perverts” and other nonsense already foresaw this usage.
no one’s ‘panicking’ about the creeps and pervs, we simply don’t accept that these devices are worth the value added.
hope someone creeps on someone you love one day so you can understand the difference between ‘anger’ and ‘panic’.
Yeah, funny how this is “PR” and manipulation but “pervert glasses” is perfectly fine.
