Clickbait warning. This has nothing to do with the Meta smart glasses. They're just a means of taking pictures of people without them noticing. But you could do the same with any internet connected camera / phone etc.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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How does that automatically dox people? I have a load of photos of people who I got in the background. I don't magically know their names.
they do some reverse image search on the internet and find your facebook profile or similar things.
Not that I have a Facebook profile, but even if I did, that would only give them access to information that I made public.
Doxing requires you to release information that you otherwise would keep private.
It won't let them know my bank account details or my home address or my medical history or anything like that.
Yeah, as I said it's clickbait and not "proper" doxing. What I've been annoyed with are old newspaper articles. Sometimes you'll find some articles with a picture and a full name citing some sports achievements from when you were 17 or did some public activity with the boy scouts or some other club. Usually including pictures, full name and location. Which isn't great and you have less control over that than over a facebook or linkedin profile...
Sometimes an employer also has a "the team" page on their website with mugshots of everyone. That can be used to annoy people, stalk them or call the employer and so some nasty stuff.
I usually don't tell people my last name. Or I write pseudonomously on the internet, to make doxing a bit more complicated. And I don't post pictures of myself. That's all I can do. And quite some years ago I tried contacting some reverse image search providers. But it was difficult to get them to get rid of the pictures.
It's not necessarily just the information out there. Being able to connect it also makes people more vulnerable. I wouldn't call it doxing, though. That term has a meaning. Usually it has to include at least an address or an employer or some private information that isn't readily available.
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Op has over 3800 posts in under a year. Yikes. Either bot or one smelly keyboard warrior
Eh, they probably just have a feed and post a bunch all at once. I've seen other posters do something similar. Creating 10-15 lemmy posts/day isn't particularly hard if you're literally just copy/pasting links from an RSS feed.
Not saying it's difficult nor all that time consuming. If you are creating 10+ posts a days, rss feed or not you need to revaluate your free time. Essentially you're attempting to sway the opinions of strangers online, all day everyday there's no other reason for that many posts other than attempting to sway others opinions. And that's fucking lame dude
I think it's just attention grabbing, the same thing that motivated people to do it on Reddit (having people recognize your username). I doubt OP is putting a lot of thought into what gets posted (i.e. no agenda), they're merely looking for lots of engagement.
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it is annoying when they do that; i would, however, venture that these glasses probably give people a way of doing things more surreptitiously, even though this article doesn't explore that
Yeah, they mention that it's unsuspicious glasses by the look. We'll have to see what this comes to... When google introduced their Google glasses, people got yelled at on the streets, at least as far as I remember.
I don't think anyone actually got yelled at for wearing them. they were pretty rare to see. I know people who wore them all the time
One disabled guy who posted about it got physically attacked and his glasses broken.
Google Glass stood out like a sore thumb, especially when it was first introduced. These have a form factor that is based on traditional sunglasses.
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Meta could build a set of glasses that lets me view Pluto, washes the dishes, and gives me a loving blowjob, and I wouldn't let them get within 10m of me.
What if it was an angry blowjob to sweeten the deal?
Is it teethy?
With a sandpaper tongue and diamond studded grilles.
Nope cant do it without the powdered Carolina ghost pepper water.
Why do you need the glasses, can't you take the picture with your phone?
Because people get suspicious when somebody is taking pictures of every stranger they come across, but people looking at passersby while wearing glasses is normal.
Just pretend to be a travel YouTuber, or a live streamer.
The glasses are just less obvious than me pointing my phone at you and snapping a picture
It isn't as obvious as shoving phone infront to take photos, whereas glasses are more incognito
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It's wild to me that this hasn't become the news of the day.
If I were RayBan I would jump ship right now before brand image is tanked. Why would you trust anyone wearing RayBans after this?
You can do this with any camera, including the one in all the phones out there. The only thing specific to the glasses is that it's more convenient and inconspicuous to be wearing it on your face.
Might as well have put the iPhone in the title for more clickbait. Anyone dedicated enough can make or buy tons of different kinds of wearables that could do the same.
The key issue is that such a database exists and is so easily searchable.
Now just imagine AI being given this type of access.
I imagine they have this stuff internally classifying photos and faces.
Sure, facebook has been doing it for years. They build shadow profiles on people, allegedly 'only' (massive air quotes around that one) so if those people ever join they'll have links and photos and such already waiting for them.
I have semi face-blindness, it takes several meetings before I can start recognising a person's face. Something like this would actually be a lifesaver for me, just so I can know who I'm talking to and whether I've met them before.
I don't have many issues, but my memory can sometimes suck, so I would also like something like this.
But not from Meta. I need to be 100% in control of the data before I'd ever feel comfortable wearing them in public.
porn has driven every digital invention from vhs to web. metas stupid glasses will be sold out when you get a realtime nude-filter. coz then everyone would also accept ads in the fiel of view.
Ew...
The company behind Threads, which we've allowed to now infest the fediverse with little evident opposition. Cheers y'all.
I have not noticed any threads content in Lemmy.
Almost every Lemmy instance blocked threads.
Exactly. In other words, they have not been "allowed to infest" the fediverse.
I forgot Lemmy is the only ActivityPub platform.
Only one worth using! Up top!
This. Mastodon is better than twitter by the virtue of not being a neo-nazi hangout spot owned by a hack. But it's still a twitter which was always shit celeb culture circlejerk
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