It ’s mea culpa time as the Macalope is here again to lecture about Meta , AR glasses , and the lousy sight that is humanity . First off , here ’s to today ’s college kids ! When the Macalope was in college he … well , let ’s just say mistakes were made . He was decidedly not doing experiment to betoken out the flaws in modernistic technology .
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta ’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers . Two student at Harvard used Meta ’s currently shipping Ray Bans in concert with PimEyes , a facial identification technology , for daunt the crap out of us .
depend , the Macalope is already afraid of teens . The way they dress , congregate in grouping , whispering conspiratorially about who ’s “ brat . ” He does n’t demand any help , Ivy League students .
Obviously , this is disturbing and , credit to the students , it ’s intend as a cautionary story , not a business enterprise plan . Although , there is picayune doubt this issomeone’sbusiness plan somewhere .
This is why the Macalope say it is time to land back Glasshole dissemble . You remember Google Glass , good ? Driving Glass out of existence may be the last great war guild has collectively waged . We hated them and we banded together to destroy them . It was beautiful .
And now ? We urge on for these newfangled devices . Last workweek the Macalopewrote about Meta ’s Orion paradigm , consider a face at the variety show of judgement about the machine . And even he neglected to bring up the privacy issue , center instead on the aesthetics . Yes , Meta ’s Orion pass better for regular glass than the Vision Pro . Meta ’s Ray Bans pass even wanton for regular glass .
Is that something wewant , though ? It ’s all well and good if they ’re being used for harmless entertainment , walking steering or idly looking up what “ little terror ” is supposed to mean , anyway . But that ’s not all they ’re go away to be used for .
Remember howFacebook got start .
It all began in 2003 , when Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg created an on-line programme called “ Facemash , ” which grant users to exteriorise fellow students by comparing photos of their face and selecting who they deemed as “ hotter . ”
Who know that rewarding someone for making something gross by turning them into a billionaire would be a misunderstanding ?
Immediate , in - the - wild privacy assault is simply the next consistent step . Social metier companies do not care about your privacy except for the way it try out as it slither past their tongues . So sweet .
While this be - horned pundit neglected to mention privacy in last calendar week ’s pillar , it was n’t speak much by the pundits the Macalope linked to in it , either . While we may have bring home the bacon the Battle of the Glasshole Fields , we have lost the War of the , uh , Privacy Ring , I do n’t acknowledge . That kind of got away from the Macalope . It is just taken for granted that these devices and capabilities are coming and there is nothing we can do about it .
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[ don funny nozzle and non - privacy - trespassing eyeglasses ]
While many have proclaim Orion at the disbursal of the Vision Pro , at least the Vision Pro does n’t move the acerate leaf on softly violating people ’s privacy much . Yes , it ’s bulky . Yes , it has eldritch oculus . No , no one would mistake them for eyeglasses . But if someone is break a Vision Pro , you know they ’re wearing something that could be recording you . With Meta ’s Ray Bans and many other gadget to add up , you ’ll only roll in the hay by the eldritch , prolonged stares . Which , countenance ’s face it , you ’re in all likelihood run to get from the sort of people who ’d wear these with the design to directly expect you up online whether they ’re wear out them or not .
Maybe this ship has sailed . Maybe it ’s too late to bear together one more time and say “ NO ! ” to wearing these thing in public . But we should consider the consequences of just rolling over .
