Harvard students turn Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses into a surveillance nightmare • FRANCE 24

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1. This is why I still wear a mask 😷

2. Nothing here is that earth shaking. The glasses are basically spyware. Instead of someone looking up the information and feeding it to you to spoof someone the ai is doing it for you. First thing I would use those glasses for is to get a date. Oh the ice breaking potential. If you don't want people to spoof you just ask Peris Hilton where she got her photo scrambling scarf. There will be clothes and image scrambling devices to combat this.

3. Who wants to bet that this exact 'feature' will be default on those glasses within 3-6 months? Terms of service 🙄! And it'll read your latest Instagram post so that random guy at a bar can ask about your holiday and say he is friend of a <close friend as per Instagram>

4. Watch dogs irl

5. Merci beau coup they did this with Google glass and the general public got scared of it's further development so it ended. Yet there are already cellphones that been able to scan qr codes and do facial recognition for years.

6. who knew covid making the world wear masks to protect ourselves, may actually have been training for the world to wear masks to protect ourselves.

7. Ray charles saw this coming

8. Doesn't work on anyone who has their social media profile locked down for 'friends only'. Also doesn't really work on people outside the US, as the US is basically the only country in the world that allows public internet-facing databases on people where you only need to know their first and last name and maybe an email address to get a massive rundown of their entire life… A bunch of cybersecurity social engineering 'hackers' who spruik those OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) websites have been royally embarrassed when they ran presentations in Australia and Europe, and when they tried to pull up the details of a few people in the crowd, it found nothing again and again and again, yet the details of any of the Septic Tank Yanks in the audience were able to be pulled up straight away.

9. I’m so annoyed with the amount of AI generated fake crime documentary channels on YouTube now

10. OVER 9000

11. I want to state on here that at times in order to actually bring to light dangerous and potentially poorly designed systems, there has to be those who are not afraid to get the whistle blown at them. This company may say things like how it breached their terms and such, but in reality a person who has a whole other idea in mind get their hands on this will they actually give a damn about so called terms? Of course not. I say these college students honestly brought to light a real problem and situation that we tend to ignore. As our tech evolves and becomes more sophisticated, it’s going to get only easier for people to get their hands on info. This was also shown in the clip of him introducing himself to a lady that they never met before and easily slipped a lie in to make it sound as if they have. So you see this effects on all levels when it comes to security and safety.

12. Don't be in social media and tdont post your photo online like dateline.

    Beautiful of network.

13. wow watchdogs irl

14. Kanye been showing us the way!!!

15. Fast and Furious's God's Eye, not good.

16. If you can’t hide from god, nor can you his future engine. Get over it so we can merge faster ty

17. I'd just wear a mask at this point.

18. These glasses will come in every shape and size, and everyone will be wearing them.
    Your next boss will know everything about you within the first 5 minutes of an interview, as Ai recites your digital bio to this person. God forbid you have a criminal record, or explicit images of yourself in the archive of the internet which means you will no longer be able to walk in public without everyone knowing.

19. Zuckerberg is going to spy even more with these glasses.

20. No surprise! Being tracked and watched by the US! Not the first time! Edward Snowden already told you that!

21. Looks just like the beginning of a Terminator movie we are living in😮

22. You can’t close Pandora’s box once it’s open!

23. holy yloh

24. And here I just want to be able to stream for my bros on discord when I’m out and about.

25. So if everything is open, and the public or who does not have much money has to have everything completely open, then every single celebrity, political, corporate, bankster, the lawyers, the whole tech sector, criminal and who or what has multiple passports and identification in different names has to have all of their information available in real time for everyone. They can do it to everyone and have used it to make money, sell dna, hair transplants, etc and not compensate anyone. Accounting also.

    Some of the tech sector just did what the large companies did. They scraped the same databases and scraped all of the stolen material. But this is a problem only because of who did this first and says it is ok for how they gained wealth. But it is hoarding and nobody else is allowed to use the technology, make income for themselves, be given credit or sort through information.

    This has unfortunately been going ton for decades. The public is just getting access to very primitive tools.

26. Dont trust people with raybans

27. Its like we are living in a backwards version of the movie They live.

28. The creeps.

29. Why do we need government now when we cannot stop something as dangerous as this they should recall who gives a damn about their terms of service is government job now only to collect taxes they should shut down Sach programs

30. The difference is the glasses can take a photo. The same can, and is happening using phones……already

31. The police could use this

32. privacy tooke a hike

33. Oh whoopsie, Meta makes another blooper. It's to be expected by now.

34. This is SO dangerous, Pedos will use it to avoid Kids and befriend them ffs. BAN IT ALL NOW

35. Dang, this could help with catching criminals or help stalkers identify their targets faster. A double edge sword

36. To boomers and kids calling it a "Hack", image reverse searching and using LLM's to summarize the data already exists and can be done by our phones too. They just did that on those glasses which is no big deal, its no rocket science 🤣🤣🤣🤣

37. It’s a breach of their service? Yeah, as if any willing and capable institution, organisation or individual worldwide, would give a fig. No bother mind, not as if hoi polloi didn’t give up their privacy decades ago. Nobody cared, or wanted a choice, about street cameras being omnipresent. People did have a choice about being online, yet most have opted in or have been cajoled to do so. Why would anyone care about this? If anyone does fear or mind any of the modern day surveillance or any other AI related issues, then they’re illogical and naive. Such fears are irrelevant and pointless.

    Man marches on and so we can only look to the benefits while we quietly tolerate the detriments.
    AI is like the soap/antiseptic of our age. Equally the best and worst, current, innovation for humanity.
    What we lose we lose, but as Aurelius stated: Loss is nothing but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

38. Considering how long automated systems for generating sounds that resemble music have been around, wasting massive amounts of computing power, just to replicate what much simpler computers have been doing quite nicely for years, seems pretty silly. There are plenty of things being pushed as being "AI", when it's nothing of the sort…just slap those two letters on it, and people will go nuts for it.

39. Not convinced. A lie