Along with the "internet is forever" and, "If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product", People need to realize that if you use any cloud based service, the data is not safe, secure, under your control, or even yours anymore.

Link to breitbart story

Cliff's Notes:
-An investigation by Swedish newspapers has uncovered that private and intimate footage captured by Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses is being reviewed by contractors in Kenya who see uncensored content recorded by the smart glasses including bathroom visits, people undressing, and sexual activity.

-contract employees at a Kenya company are contracted by Meta to view and identify all objects in the footage to help train AI.

-this does require the user to "opt in" in some form to help improve the AI. I don't how it is worded.

Gee

Imagine that

Someone yet again destroying your privacy

Aside from the hellacious violation of privacy, a key point is that the glasses are actually another data collection mechanism for Big Data. They don't really add value to a person's life beyond the entertainment aspect, just like social media, but are designed to generate profit for the large company hosting it.

Kenyans training AI based on their interpretation of objects and actions occurring in the USA, which they probably have very little first-hand familiarity with and have little understanding of the cultural context? AI is going to be even weirder than it already is.

Kenya?

Has nobody ever read a National Geographic?

On one hand this is further disgustingness in the, what should be illegal, invasion of privacy from corpos and govt.

On the other hand, the people wearing these devices should absolutely know that everything they do and say is already being recorded on their smartphones and smart home devices, so of course these are too. They share part of the blame.

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How about the people they deal with on a daily basis that don't know they're being recorded and spied on by Kenyans?

How about if your child was being recorded by another parent's or their kid's glasses?

The whole concept is highly invasive, even disregarding all those Kenyans watching us.

Thanks, Obama.

Do those glasses create a clear enough image where those Kenyans could read your credit card number when you looked at your card?
No chance of fraud there ...

People wear these “smart glasses” when they go to the john?

People in the military were wearing them while working on classified equipment.

Just plain stupid.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
People wear these “smart glasses” when they go to the john?

For a lot of people they're prescription, so they wear them everywhere they would wear glasses.

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Originally posted by Perception:

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
People wear these “smart glasses” when they go to the john?

For a lot of people they're prescription, so they wear them everywhere they would wear glasses.

Did not think they were needed to see for sexual activity unless they intended to record that activity.

I might be interested in smart glasses IF I control the data. If the data recorded only goes to my systems, I can see the utility.

But for anything that is aligned with a particular brand like Apple, Meta, Google, etc., I would be sceptical.

I am not including things that use other services, such as search, etc. I understand that data is going to an outside provider.

That's what I was thinking-glasses during sex? Maybe it's about lone practitioners.

[George Costanza] Shrinkage! [/George Costanza]

Think about the things you do/see all the time that could be compromised by having these glasses record everything:

Debit Card number
Debit Card Pin
Bank account balances
Personal information on forms
Work data
Other peoples information from work Data systems
Telephone call conversations
Your schedule when you leave and return home exposing the times your home is empty.
If you are cheating on your spouse, could the data be requested by your spouse in a divorce as proof

Basically you're exposing everything in your life to some people in a Country where corruption, extortion and exposure are a way of life...

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Originally posted by HRK: Basically you're exposing everything in your life to some people in a Country where corruption, extortion and exposure are a way of life...

Obama was already mentioned.

Isn’t this type of stuff that got google in a bunch of trouble and they pulled google glass off the market for a while?

Why is this a surprise to anyone? Soon enough, they’ll made camera equipped drones the size of a fly or a flea, and “privacy” will be removed from the dictionary.