Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

Check out the Amazon Ring scandal. Almost the exact same story. It's safe to assume that none of these companies have any internal guards in place to protect our data. As for external guards? Well, they sell access to the ~~highest bidder~~ pretty much anyone.

"Tesla employees passed around videos taken in car owners’ private garages and other interesting recordings captured by the cameras built in to the company’s vehicles, [Reuters recently reported](https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/). “We could see them doing laundry and really intimate things. We could see their kids,” according to one of nine former employees who told the news agency about the practice." [https://www.aclund.org/news/tesla-camera-scandal-latest-lesson-dangers-letting-companies-record-you/](https://www.aclund.org/news/tesla-camera-scandal-latest-lesson-dangers-letting-companies-record-you/) Meta: Yes, yes.

As on older guy, I remember when people were worried about wiretapping and the government/companies watching you. Well they found out how to do it. All they had to do was sell it to us. Now they're watching us smash lol. Smh.

This should not come as a surprise to anyone. 

I've heard of healthcare workers wearing them while on shift. Which means any patient interaction, any chart they look at, any conversation they are part of or near could be recorded.

What blows me away is how many companies haven’t clamped down and banned employees from wearing them. I work in a bank and we’re constantly looking at confidential information. And then there’s the issue of corporate spying. When I see people wearing these in public, I move away from them.

After 9/11 the CIA had an experimental program called LifeLog. It documented people’s every day experiences, and created predictive models for each target. When the white paper was made public the agency received a ton of backlash over the privacy implications. So they killed the program…the same day Facebook was formed as a company. Making the data aggregation voluntary hurdled those privacy concerns. And while both Meta and the agency claim there’s no relationship, the scripts that ran to compartmentalize the massive trove of data are identical to LifeLog’s. They also used the same terminology…like snapshots of a persons relationships or relation to events were called “Threads”. 22 years later and Facebook has morphed into the very LifeLog program that was shuttered over privacy concerns. It’s not a bigger story for the same reason Google dodges media criticism…the agency doesn’t like the media messing with their toys.

Siri and Android are also listening all the time. Some subcontractors that shared a building with me were contracted by Apple to QC Siri’s interpretation of spoken language told me they heard people having sex, buying drugs, having intimate conversations with their doctors…all kinds of shit. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/20/apple-whistleblower-goes-public-over-lack-of-action

Thankfully those workers weren’t fired. Meta cut the contract with their company so they got laid off instead. /s

Are we just entirely desensitized to all of this? I feel like a story like this breaking 20 years ago would have sunk a company. Now people just go, "yea we figured."

Imagine having sex with Meta glasses on…..

Strange Days

How much for that bridge? Very interested 

the business model of every social media company (and really any company online in any capacity now) is to harvest as much data as possible and use it to optimize targeted advertising. expecting Meta to respect privacy on a new device they’ve invented is like expecting Shell not to drill in a new oil field they’ve discovered.

This guy become a billionaire by selling people info

They are rapidly becoming the goto device for filming POV p***.

Everyone's agreeing with you, but tbh I assumed people only bought them for sex reasons in the first place

Paying for sex is still having sex.

The only people I know who have them are narcissistic influencer-type who have a lot of narcissistic sex

Would anyone ever buy these for non-sex reasons?

What a country!

...In Capitalist America, glasses spy you. Is that meme still in circulation lol?

Those images have probably been handed over to drumpf and the rest of the epstein client list

These oligarchs *are* the government. Ruling behind a facade of laws and regulations, that they have control over.

Kidding me? The government loves cameras and spy’s. This is right up their alley

The olis are getting paid to do this.

If you’re wondering why they don’t, look up why Citizens United was such a big deal. There’s been no going back since 2010

I think that people who hated Google classes are the same people who hate these classes.  It's me. I'm those people.

They were called glassholes

Main screen turn-on

It's a Britishism, "in row" is like being involved in a controversy or something like that.

Meta workers reported that they had access to observe people having sex through their smart glasses saved content. Those workers got fired for their report. Meta is now in a controversy over that.

It could use some work to be sure. Maybe a lil punctuation

I can't believe this is the only comment criticising that

the article is behind a paywall, so I guess I’ll remain in the dark

But the title has the dreaded s word in it /s

I thought it was Ingress...

I'm out of the loop. Can you please explain what you mean? Does pokemon go have use of people's cameras? (Genuine questions)