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Facebook Debuts $299 'Ray-Ban Stories' Smart Glasses

the pursuit of sex, nudity, and voyeurism is what progressed tech to the point it is now. no one wants to talk about it or believe it, but it's the truth.
 
nutmac said:
Facebook can say anything it wants, but their recent past experiences show that they have zero regard for user privacy and for keeping our data safe.
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I mean, isn't that the basis of their whole business, though? Their entire reason for being is to harvest and aggregate all possible data about their users in order to monetize them. It seems odd to expect that they would "keep our data safe" or have regard for user privacy. They exist to destroy your privacy.
 
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SFjohn said:
So easy to cover that led showing you are recording. A dab of black paint, or electrical tape. 3D videos of women’s and men’s gym rooms for sale. Although could come in handy for monitoring police for unjustified use of force…
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That's a good pro!
 
Question: Are these new Ray Bans designed to see who can set the world speed record for getting sunglasses slapped right off their face, or just another shameless copy of something Snapchat did?

Answer: Yes.
 
Are the speakers bone-conducting or just open? ... Will other people hear whatever s**t music is being listened to by the weirdo wearing these?
 
Just out of curiosity, checked the new supplemental policy to "Facebook View" (what an adequate naming... ) that they added yesterday. It's just scary, specially the Facebook Assistant section:

  • Depending on your preferences, we also store and process information about your voice interactions to help improve Facebook Assistant. You can manage voice storage to improve Facebook Assistant in your Settings. You can also access and delete stored information in your Settings or in Your Facebook Information. When voice storage for product improvement is on, we use machine learning and trained reviewers to process information to improve, troubleshoot, and train Facebook Assistant, and we share that information with certain third parties for product improvement. We also share such information for law enforcement purposes or as otherwise required by law as described in the Facebook Data Policy under “How do we respond to legal requests or prevent harm?”.
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Source: https://www.facebook.com/help/ray-ban-stories/data-policy?rdrhc
 
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dysamoria said:
They spy on every Facebook user in some way, regardless of whether any of them think they’re important enough.
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There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. You know what I mean? What they will ‘spy’? Pics of your dog and your trip 2 miami?
 
Didn't one of the social media companies try this a few years ago. very similar frame style, had a camera in each corner and the purpose was to be able to upload video's directly to your social media page but it never took off because people did not like the look of the glasses, plus when wearing them, due to the design and colour, it gave it away immediatly as to the social media company the wearer was using.
 
saudade said:
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. You know what I mean? What they will ‘spy’? Pics of your dog and your trip 2 miami?
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Spying is a badly chosen word; I used it because you used it. What's really happening is that these corporations are making money by treating us like cattle. My pics aren't meant for that, even if they're innocuous. Also, none of my other associated data or metadata is for that. They're not paying me for my participation in their scheme because the "product" they offer me as bait is designed to THWART my preferences while serving their purposes. It's not a balanced exchange in any way.

On top of that, it is systemically toxic. It is impacting culture and politics for the worst, because they only care about ad revenue (and lies, conspiracy theories, sexism, racism, and various other awful **** sell more eyes to adverts than anything else). That is NOT worth a "free" lunch.

Sorry for the rant. I don't use Facebook any more. After learning just how dystopian this **** is, I've been ending my use of all these so-called "free" services, since we are just cattle that corporations fight over.
 
kingtj1971 said:
It's absolutely happened, especially with Google Glass -- because those were initially sold to developers, and the general public couldn't yet buy them. That created a lot of paranoia around them, since they weren't a product most people could really try out themselves and see what they really did and didn't do.

A private bar or club can ban whatever they like, just like some enforce arbitrary dress codes (like no tennis shoes). But eventually, I think the idea of glasses with cameras integrated will become mainstream enough that people stop treating it like a special situation. Every smartphone on the planet can do the same stuff and people always have them in hand in these establishments.
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Maybe by changing the window of acceptability. We certainly see enough of that going on with insane politicians and their cults, as well as the entire goddamned computer industry (if it uses software, it's effectively unreliable and without warranty, which was unique in all industry until the tech industry pushed its way into everything and lobbied to legally enforce their illegal EULAs and all the special pleading ******** they use to avoid taking any responsibility for their own products).

I'm no luddite; there's a sane way to use technology and we aren't there.
 
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