These things should probably be banned, and Facebook dissolved with its leadership punished for their crimes.
They’re the Epstein class.
That’s it! They’re “Epstein Glasses”
If you’re dumb enough to spend hundreds of dollars on a Facebook spy camera that you wear on your face, you get what’s coming to you, as far as I’m concerned.
There are innocent bystanders being surveiled without consent involved though.
Well yeah, fuck that too obviously, but this article is talking specifically about the owners of the glasses and their partners.
Why would Meta workers need to see anything from these cameras at all?
It’s fucking Facebook. Their entire mission is to gobble as much about your private life as possible, through any means possible.
I remember being excited about the Oculus Quest back in the day, then Facebook bought it. Dead to me in a single moment.
The reality can be messy. Meta contractors based in Nairobi, Kenya, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten in a recently published joint investigation that they’re being told to review highly sensitive and intimate data.
“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed,” one contractor for a company called Sama said. “I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording.”
“I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told the newspapers. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.”
Other footage included imagery of people’s bank cards, users watching porn, or even filming entire “sex scenes.”
An employee added that they felt forced to watch and annotate or else risk losing their job.
“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” the employee said. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”
Buried in Meta’s AI terms of use, the company reserves the right to have the company “review your interactions with AIs, including the content of your conversations with or messages to AIs, and this review can be automated or manual (human).”
The document also warned that users shouldn’t share information that “you don’t want the AIs to use and retain, such as information about sensitive topics.”
But given the kind of information data annotators are being asked to review, many users don’t appear to be aware of that last piece of advice.
Worst of all, owners of Meta’s AI glasses simply don’t have the option of making use of the AI features without agreeing to share data shared with Meta’s remote servers. And once the data is sent, it’s already often too late.
Holy fuck. Recording people undressing etc. is bad enough, but it never occurred to me that they’d also be recording sensitive financial details like credit card numbers. This is a cyber criminals wet dream…
JFC. These fucking people are pedophiles. All these people monitoring should be in a fucking jail cell
Well yeah. The people who buy these things are disturbing individuals. Kinda goes with the territory.
Except if you think about it, this is possible with smartphones too. They have cameras in the front and the back. The phone just has to be vertical. But docks and holders take care of that. The only thing left is the camera to be recording. Sure there are permission systems. But they’re all software. No physical switches or indicators for safety. You won’t know even if it’s recording. And if it’s recording, it will uploading it just as easily. We’re addicted to a spy device.
Some phones do have hardware switches, but they’re certainly the exception.
Whether our phones are surreptitious spy devices when they’re oriented correctly and have adversarial software running is very different from, “I’m going to buy always-on camera glasses and send the data to one of the most untrustworthy companies on the planet,” the latter of which was my point.
So it’s just corporate invasion of privacy all over again.
It never really stopped. Even after Cambridge Analytica, Meta was allowed to go back to business as usual with barely a slap on the wrist.
That people keep buying their products and using their platforms and then being shocked to find out they’ve been used is honestly people’s own ignorant fault.
And they do nothing about it
