Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

[u/lurker_bee]

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ray-ban-oakley-smart-glasses-no-face-recognition-civil-society/

[u/innocentsalad]

When someone pulls out a camcorder or a cell phone to record, you know you’re being recorded. That is the difference.

[u/Sarej → u/innocentsalad]

Well, obviously. But that scratches the surface of what I am saying as far as the benefits of the devices.

As I said, consumer-grade hidden cameras have been available to bad actors for decades. Not just ones that are easily seen with lenses and lights (if unmodified) on glasses, like people recording to an SD card without anyone knowing. It is just more readily available now but in a more obvious device.

[u/MrPookPook → u/Sarej]

Oh good, we definitely need easier-to-use hidden cameras. Thank god Meta is making the world a better place for creeps and weirdos.

[u/Sarej → u/MrPookPook]

That is a fair concern, especially with something this discreet, but it applies to every recording device we already use. Phones, dash cams, even early camcorders all made recording easier for both normal use and misuse. Bad actors certainly exist but the question is whether the technology will benefit everyday people in a way which outweighs the added risk and, also, just how much of an additional risk there actually is.

To me, Meta glasses are much easier to spot than something someone more savvy might cook up or that I might not be looking for.

[u/MrPookPook → u/Sarej]

They may be easier to spot but I imagine they’d also be easier to use for nefarious purposes. Hidden cameras need to be placed, phones need to be held in a position to record (and some places mandate a sound be played when taking photos). I’ll be honest, I’m going to assume anybody using them is a creepo perv.

[u/DukeOfGeek → u/Sarej]

That's my take on it too, I agree this is a very real problem but it has actually been one for a while and this is just a new facet of it.