This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
www.404media.co
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    68·
    3 days ago

    What an awesome society we live in. We were promised jetpacks, but we got “hey, you’re being spied on” pocket machine. (I mean, the pocket machine spies on you too, but that’s fine, cause that’s a corporation spying on you.)

    • utopiah@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 days ago

      the pocket machine spies on you too, but that’s fine

      I bet that most people who are interested in this kind of projects are the same who asked questions like https://lemmy.ml/post/43696523 and thus are relatively invested into making sure what’s in their own pocket doesn’t spy that much on them.

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works
      271·
      3 days ago

      For sure.

      I talk to my pa, he was around in the earliest days of personal computing in the 1970’s when you didn’t need a whole room for a computer any more. You could get one in your very own house! He remembers feeling like we were headed into a utopia. There was no spyware. Computers would do all these great things for us.

      Honestly we did get some pieces of a utopia. I can now talk to my friend who speaks only German while I cannot speak any German at all. We use a computer to translate for us. That’s straight up sci fi! We got some good parts, but we got even more bad parts. We got all this dystopian big-tech corp, mass surveillance, Orwellian BS.

      Never go full dystopia.