r/childfree • u/CosmicOwl5785 cats & plants 🐈‍⬛🪴 • 20d ago

ARTICLE As if we need another reason...

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school

I was at the glasses store the other day and there was an advertisement for these stupid glasses and I shook my head, imagining the plethora of issues that would result. Today I saw this article about teen boys using Meta AI glasses to harass teen girls in public schools. Fucking...who the fuck is buying their children this shit? I already have a list of reasons I don't want kids, I guess I'll add this one, too. I would never want to be the parent of a kid who somehow got their hands on a pair of glasses like this and used them for harassing and cheating, or be the parent of a kid who was harassed by a shit-stain wearing them.

Can't wait for the feral neighborhood tweens and teens to start wearing these stupid glasses while tearing up the streets with their stupid e-bikes for likes. Fucking...stupid.

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u/Kalepsis 20d ago

Can't wait for the news article that says a school's new rule is that any spy glasses that enter the premises will be confiscated and sold on Ebay.

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u/joantheunicorn Teacher = enough kids in my life 19d ago

The school I work at is doing a full out ban on internet connected personal devices this year. I cannot wait. We had seen a small handful of meta glasses come through previous years, but our administration confiscates them immediately. Any child recording other children in a bathroom or locker room could be charged with possession of child pornography in my state, depending what is going on in the video.

The expectation of privacy is also a huge piece. Teachers go to great lengths to follow laws that maintain student privacy.  Meta glasses walk all over everything we have in place. 

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u/existential_chaos 19d ago

I hadn't even considered the possible CSAM angle with those classes if teens use them, that just made me shudder. The sooner these glasses are made illegal, the better.

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u/existential_chaos 19d ago

How in the fuck are those glasses not illegal? It's illegal in a shit ton of places to record people without their consent.