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[–] BlakeFox808@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

The girls need to fight back with photos of them. Watch how fast they put a stop to it.

[–] Monument@piefed.world 4 points 41 minutes ago

People are being disgusting, using technology that was designed to be stealthy on purpose by others for disgusting reasons (to normalize allowing ever greater data collection by tech companies - no surprise the privacy protections are trivially easy to defeat), and are posting videos online for a reason - that they get satisfaction from it.

I guess I don’t care if this makes me sound old or callous, but we need to bully these people. Make the people who post and share these videos embarrassed. Tell them they look like stupid losers who can’t get dates or talk to people. Make them feel bad for not being kind and socially connecting with others. Give them no community or understanding until they stop breaking the social contract.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 1 points 38 minutes ago

Seems like something title 9 should be used to quash, but civil rights for women are only important if transgender people exist in public somewhere

[–] olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 hours ago

Here they're not even allowing students to carry mobile phones inside of schools. How is this even allowed?

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

so if perverts are not allowed on school property and it is considered private space for that reason...

so who is enforcing that law?

the fuck happened to this society? everyone just seems to be victims all the time. no doers.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 39 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Hoooold up just a minute. How much do these glasses cost? Like hundreds right? What kind of teen boy has that much money to burn? I sure as fuck didn't, and I worked. Their parents bought them, and these are kids, so it's 100% blame on the parents here.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Even if the kids bought them it is still the parent’s responsibility to keep their kid from being an obnoxious pervert.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That's what really sucks about this.

There's no institutional backlash. (At least not yet. That could change.)

We're depending on parents who park these little shits in front of screens and expect to be left alone while their kids are radicalized.

[–] Geologist@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I had thousands as a teenager from around 15 years old working part time evening and weekends at barely above minimum wage.

When you have no expenses from living at home, you can save everything (and in my case blow it all on electronics lol)

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 2 hours ago

Parents with more money than sense

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

When I was 16 and started working, I quickly had enough money saved from working minimum wage, part time, to buy myself a car. It's not impossible.

Also, these may be kids/young adults, but they should all know right from wrong. Blame is absolutely on the students who use these too.

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

~~Teen Boys~~ Men of all ages Are Using Meta Glasses to ~~Terrorize~~ sexually harass ~~Girls~~ women of all ages ~~at High Schools and Middle Schools~~ everywhere.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Is there any actual data to support the claim you're making, or are you taking a few viral videos and using them as a means to support your own implicit bias?

[–] arin@lemmy.world 32 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Stop blaming the kids, it’s the corporation’s fault. Title should be Meta glasses are recording and enabling harassment of underaged school children

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 16 points 4 hours ago

Yeah. The kids are just the last part of the chain of failure here. Why is Meta producing such a thing? Why the fuck are parents buying several hundred dollars worth of spy glasses for their children and sending them to school with them without any supervision? And what the fuck is the school doing here? The first report of someone harassing other pupils with such a device should be reason to ban them and take hard discipline measures against the harrasser

[–] best_redditor@leminal.space 3 points 3 hours ago

supplier first then the chain...everyone is blamed

[–] mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago

The glasses shouldn’t exist but what parents are buying these for their kids?! Blame the parents too.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago
[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 50 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

In my eyes anyone wearing one of these is a pervert. I simply don't see who else could be the audience for a purposefully discreet camera built into a pair of glasses. Even Google's attempt at glasses were more overt that these. I'd say Meta is shameful, but that's not exactly a shocker to anyone at this point.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 26 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I would have loved glasses that could detect advertising with a camera and block it out so I don't see it, but instead we got AI nudes and stalking.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Aww man you just made me realise that you could combine A.I. image generation with augmented reality to make everyone nude in real time. What a fucked up world we live in. I'm sure someone is already working on a program like this

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And probably even more ads sent directly to your eyeballs. If they're not there yet they're already on the roadmap.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

What matters is who controls the tech, not just the capabilities.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 2 points 21 minutes ago

This. Adblock glasses were never going to come from a company that gets a lot of it's revenue from ads.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

So much potential. Face lookup of contacts so I get reminded of people's names. Lyrics to any detected song so I can sing along. Virtual post-it note reminders in 3D space. Alerts or navigation while walking. Virtual monitors put on any surface.
But humans are too hung up on sex, so it's not going to happen.

[–] riot@fedia.io 13 points 6 hours ago

I remember seeing a video of a blind woman using them, in combination with some earbuds, so she could get her surroundings described to her, as well as have objects she picked up described. But you're right, glasses with discreet cameras on them, aren't necessary for a situation like that - Something more overt would be fine for that use case.

[–] jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I would love overt google glass style glasses that are obvious as a solution for a dashcam like system for when i am driving, or tracking where I left mg keys etc. But as you say, the discreet camera is for perverts.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago

It's probably the clearest if a built-in camera is not allowed for glasses and the camera is an external unit they have to clip on. Functional the same, but socially making it clear you're filming.

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Even Google's attempt at glasses were more overt that these.

That's because the tech wasn't there yet. Otherwise, it would have been the same.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I kind of like the idea. Take some pictures while doing other things like riding your bike or going on a hike without having to take out your phone. Take a quick picture while shopping to them to my wife. Get navigation cues without the phone. But they are so creepy

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 55 minutes ago

I've seen videos on Instagram of people using them for a first person view without having to strap a GoPro to their head. Like for hobby work.

But if you're going biking or whatever, you can just as easily strap a camera to your helmet, and get a 360° view to boot. If you're hiking or shopping, it's very little effort to take out your phone and snap a pic. And you get the benefit of being able to actually preview the shot.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 41 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Couple this w/ the AI nudification sites and this is gonna be insane. Teen boys don't think big picture...

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And they'll complain loudly when they end up on tea for women or similar sites in the blacklist section.

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

These are children we're talking about, they lack the ability for critical thinking.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 1 points 39 minutes ago

And yet if one gets pregnant, parenthood is forced upon them

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget, high schools have students who are legal adults.

[–] SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app 4 points 3 hours ago

Many adults lack the ability for critical thinking.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like everyone is talking about these glasses and I've never seen anyone wearing them. Not saying it's not happening but I think it's a US thing

Is it just a power of glasses with plastic lenses and a camera or do they actually have any other features, because if it's just a camera then they're really isn't any legitimate market.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 51 minutes ago

They aren't actually all that common, especially outside the US, but you probably also wouldn't notice them: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/travel-products/a69461056/ray-ban-meta-glasses-review/ https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmented-reality/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-collection-review

They just look like glasses if you're not looking closely. You have to specifically look for the camera or the big arms.