Privacycross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1812149/this-app-warns-you-if-someone-is-wearing-smart-glasses-nearby-404media
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.”
more at: @feed@404media.co
If you don't want to install from Google Play, install APK from this link
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses/releases
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.)
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.
There are also inexpensive ESP32-based ~~Nest~~ Flock camera detectors out there. They work by detecting their Bluetooth & Wi-Fi traffic, specifically by scanning for manufacturers’ OUIs on MAC addresses.
Here's the problem, it's not doing anything people already couldn't and weren't doing, it's just making it a lot easier and making it more widely available. Honestly it's the exact same issue with "AI", every bad aspect about it was already being done with existing LLMs, they were just the domain of a much smaller subset of people.
it's not doing anything people already couldn't and weren't doing, it's just making it a lot easier and making it more widely available.
This could be said of so many things.
Yeah that's kinda my point.
This line of reasoning was already perfectly captured in Office Space: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yZjCQ3T5yXo
That's... not even close to what I'm saying. That's like saying using computers to steal money is illegal therefore using computers is illegal. Someone walking around with a camera is fairly commonplace, the problem is this tech makes it less easy to see and more accessible, which is a problem because of the number of people who would want to use it for something illegal. Remember back when they started making digital cameras which could take pictures silently, which was a big privacy issue? Then they started making mandatory sound effects when a picture was taken.... until they stopped doing that?
