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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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The world is moving to a risk management style surveillance network inspired by the Gestapo. If we treat everyone like a criminal, is the new world government's ideology then we will eventually catch you. I think there was a novel talking about mass surveillance networks to enforce government policies like a dystopian novel.
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But, like, why though? Who asked for this?
Palantir and flock
Because they have to compete with other tech giants and their AI initiatives or they will be left behind and eventually bought out by one of them. All these companies are in fierce competition with each other for survival right now. You still think they make products for our benefit? Those benefits are necessary for us to participate, it isn't why they make those products.
These better be very visually distinct from ordinary AirPods - I do not want to be mistaken for the sort of twat who would wear something with a camera in it 🫤
I’m hoping this is bullshit, but this is a fast track out of the Apple ecosystem for me.
If anyone actually wants this they they don’t have the intelligence to consider the consequences.
Either way I hope it’s announced this month as I need new headphones.
Maybe BS, but I’d wager only partly true, because the kind of sensors needed for basic local environment awareness aren’t “cameras” in the usual sense even if the have an array of photoreceptors like a camera uses. It might be better described as a higher resolution version of the IR light detectors currently used.
Regardless, given a few undeniable technical realities, like ridiculously tiny batteries and the bandwidth requirements of video vs available BT throughput, there is 0% chance of these earbuds becoming pervglasses-like surveillance wear.
Reactionaries and sourgrapists don’t give a rats ass about truth, however, so prepare for sensationalist headlines no matter what.
That’s a really good point about the sort of image quality they could capture and transmit given the tiny battery… but if they sacrifice the battery life or NC development to add in some AI data gathering it’s a step too far for me.
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Yeah, as a glasses-wearer, I am seriously thinking about getting some totally rimless glasses so no one thinks I have the pervert glasses…
I grew up on TNG and always wanted my glasses to have the powers of Geordi’s VISOR… but not like this…
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"People don't want cameras on their glasses"
"What if we put them on their airpods?"
We ostracized the glasses by calling them "pervert glasses"
We can do the same with "pervert pods"
Or pPods, if you will
Oh so they've learnt nothing from Meta's pervert glasses?
Amazon has these.
It’s happening.
🤢 every day I'm disappointed that Amazon is somehow still in business.
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They know. They're willing to risk it for the data they'll get.
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Seems like Apple didn't get the memo as public opinion has turned on having cameras absolutely everywhere. I get that it's for "visual intelligence", but that's just some marketing to try and convince people this doesn't make you look as pervy as wearing the Meta Raybans.
Thiel needs the data. Remember they're working together.
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PervPods
You were SO close.
StarePods
PornoPods?
Where the hell do they find their focus groups that encourage this crap?
They're building the surveillance state.
They literally want to have surveillance cameras sticking out of our fucking ears and have us pay for it. And no doubt a bunch of idiots cannot wait to comply.
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So pervert air pods
Tech is so fucking cooked. They are clearly out of ideas and grasping at straws. This is the dumbest thing I've heard... So far.
They are building a mobile surveillance device that will collect them the data they need to compete with the other tech giants pursuing AI. They aren't grasping, it's calculated and intentional. You seem to still think they build consumer goods for our use and not for their own.
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I bet you every latest iPhone carrier individual thinks that this is the coolest thing on the planet
It's joever, pack up
If you care about privacy move to a country that actually allows pro-human laws to pass instead of pro-capital
Enters a Mexican restaurant. ICE arrives minutes after.
I’m already kicking myself for buying into them in the first place. Fuck cameras, I’m going back to wired headphones. My $20 IEMs sound better than my AirPod pros, without all the fancy over processing.
I got myself a pair of moondrop chu’s and this is the way
In addition to privacy concerns, why is it that every time battery capacity is improved, they find a new way to drain it? They don't even last a full day
Why the fuck
At this point, it seems like the only way out of this situation is the weaponization of EMPs. I’m not supporting that, I’d personally prefer if medical technology and refrigerators and similar things still worked, but if people don’t like cameras everywhere (and we can now very clearly see that they don’t) and companies insist on putting cameras into all types of technologies where they’re not always visible, where else could this lead?
Sounds like a camera to me.
"Hey siri what is on my foot" "hey siri" "hey siri" "hey siri what is on my foot"
I guess they're out of ideas. When the original idea was to listen to shit in your ear.
Sounds like they come with Visual Idiocy.
You can tell by seeing someone with them that they're a fucking idiot.
So either private changing stalls in every locker room, or we go the starship troopers route where they have mixed showers and no one cares.
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