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.
Boo hoo, go cry about it, ACAB
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
Oh, no. That’s terrible. Nobody should ever be recording the police… It might catch them breaking a law or two /s
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.
“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.
Whaddayoumean ‘leaving the facility’?
and no-one would believe them because they are a criminal without any evidence.
think about all the heinous shit cameras have captured in the last 50 years. now imagine all the heinous shit that has gone unpunished because it wasn’t documented for a moment.
Which would you rather have in a prison experience - your own pov documented, or the word of a bunch of cops/guards?
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.
The difference between those concrete facts they’re openly concerned about and the between-the-lines concerns they are not stating is: those other concerns are a matter of observation, recollection, testimony in court - and they can’t have objective evidence disagreeing with their own testimony as to what may or may not have transpired within their “controlled areas.”
There are other hidden recording devices maybe they already check for all those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttered_cat_paradox
This comment section should be … interesting
Please don’t teach LEO’s to levitate, I don’t think they need super powers.
“You could power a planet by hooking a turbine to her right now. That’s how much she’s spinning in this grave”
Even if the adages were correct, the toast would not prevent the cat from landing on its feet because the toast has already landed. It’s landed on the cat’s back.
You could make the same argument that it had landed on the plate therefore you’re safe.
there’s always another landing, or more concisely, another opportunity for the butter to hit the floor.
It’s not about the landing; it’s about the wet side hitting the ground, making a mess, and making it less appetizing.
I was going to say: the Chi of the cat overpowers the Chi of the toast. While buttered toast may be strong enough to influence its own destiny during a fall (and I would suspect it’s the butter on the toast doing that…), the cat is an altogether much stronger master of its destiny during the fall and whatever weak influence the butter on the toast has would be overpowered by the life-force of the cat.
These things should not exist, but if they must then they should be put to this sort of use.
Enjoy your levitating cat.
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Police have things to hide??
/s
OMG, I LOL’d no cap
For older users, I quite literally laughed out loud
“Oh my god. I laughed out loud. I’m not kidding.”
Hello, trolll
His translation is better tho.
For older folk, “Good morrow, you jolly japester”
Fr fr
As a relict from the past millennia, I’d like to thank you for your service.
GenX: No Shit, I laughed.
How old do you have to be to not know the acronym lol? 80+?
I’ve said it before, but if these things weren’t hooked up to a corporate cloud they would be great for sousveillance of the police and other authorities.
There’re some out there from other manufacturers that have open source firmware, unfortunately they aren’t cheap.
Unfortunately, using ethical versions will still contribute to the normalization of the non-ethical options, because people won’t know the difference at a glance (or care).
Do you have any links to them?
But I thought the surveillance state was good for us? Why, do the police have something to hide?
There are a great many cases where people have used tech to catch police in a lie, and naturally the police charge them with serious felonies for it. This goes back decades, and in shitoly jurisdictions is just in your face corruption.
“it was supposed to be us who do the surveillance, not zuck!”
Not just Zuck anymore, you can buy cheap versions in Kmart.
Was gonna say just that. They’re all for surveillance technology as long as they are in control. Surveillance for thee…
And I was told only perverts would want to secretly record their surroundings.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
Gaslighters’ favorite line.
I mean they are providing the theoretical information they would like to hide in the comment why they don’t want pervert glasses in the facility. Whether that’s an honest statement of concern is different.
The police are our, the public’s, servants.
What proprietary information can they have from us? Literally everything they do and who they are must be transparent and auditable at all times.
Lolololololol.
Ask them how they conduct investigations, specifically electronic, or covert, and what technologies they use.
Ask if they’ve used imsi catchers, aka stingrays.
You’ll find they don’t have to tell you shit and you are the servant.
