"Pervert glasses": Meta's smart glasses are being banned from workplaces over privacy concerns
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"Pervert glasses": Meta's smart glasses are getting banned from workplaces, bars. Do we really need them in society?
Meta's AI glasses look like ordinary sunglasses but can record video, and people are finding ways to disable the little recording light that's supposed to warn others. They're being called "pervert glasses" online. But if you thought being able to record was bad, Meta has plans to use facial recognition to give people "Name Badges".
There are a group of US senators who are not happy, and have written to Meta. They don't like that it could be used for harassment, stalking, and targeted intimidation; but also that people could have their biometrics scanned just by walking down the street.
In the UK, the UK Cinema Association is trying to find the balance between helpful and harmful. It likes the idea of having people be able to have captions generated for them on the fly – that's helpful! But being able to record the content and put it online, that's harmful! No cinemas in the UK have banned them yet, but it's under discussion.
One of the reasons people support the ban in workplaces is that those on the front lines —waiters, servers, cashiers— can't just walk away from being filmed. Restaurateurs don't like the idea of their guests' privacy being infringed either.
A recent leak has shown that Apple is working on Airpods with cameras in them, but they don't appear —at this stage— to be about recording, but more about helping make sense of the world and give additional context.
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