Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

4 months ago by sanitation to c/technology

"Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine."
MountingSuspicion 134 points 4 months ago

In the striking memo, the tech giant noted that the ethically-fraught feature should ideally be launched "during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns."

Great article. Per usual, meta is a horrible company filled with horrible people who make the decisions.

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joeljoelle 38 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it is pretty striking, because it hints at something much larger, such as Meta being the cause of political unrest to further it's own agenda. That is striking indeed. They should be fully investigated and dismantled in a fair and just democracy.

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keimevo 14 points 4 months ago

A couple of days ago I finished reading "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. This book really shows how awful the people at the top of Facebook are (it probably applies to other similar companies as well). And it's not that they want to be evil, it's more like they are playing a game of fame, pride and power and don't care about the consequences. It made me recall the quote about "the banality of evil".

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captainlezbian 3 points 4 months ago

I feel like since the book was written they've slowly slipped into willful evil. Even in the book, as time went on they got more and more comfortable doing evil rather than just not avoiding doing evil.

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yucandu 2 points 4 months ago

I'm curious what they mean by "dynamic political environment" and "other concerns".

Like I get that it's "launch a controversial thing while the people that would care are distracted". But what are we distracted by?

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EvergreenGuru 5 points 4 months ago

Something else, apparently. They would determine that in real time and launch after confirming that the other technology was facing significant backlash.

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cannedtuna 70 points 4 months ago

One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database.

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Telorand 22 points 4 months ago

Not building a central face database...so far!

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marduk 17 points 4 months ago

They could call it "the book of faces"

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nehal3m 7 points 4 months ago

Drop the “the”

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arschflugkoerper 10 points 4 months ago

„Nobody has the intention to build a wall.“

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paraphrand 9 points 4 months ago

“It will be a federated decentralized face database that lives on each users phone.”

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roguetrick 60 points 4 months ago

we are not building a central face database

I honestly cannot understand why the parent company of Facebook would actually release such a parody sounding response

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Asetru 21 points 4 months ago

Who doesn't like overly specific statements?

It's a distributed database, of course.

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EvergreenGuru 14 points 4 months ago

I didn’t kill that man with a knife in the observatory.

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yesman 30 points 4 months ago

What we're seeing is the transition to techno feudalism. Capitalism's final insult was to privatize surveillance-state authoritarianism.

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gravitas_deficiency 25 points 4 months ago

What is “the Streisand effect”, Alex?

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crandlecan 2 points 4 months ago

Correct!!

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ark3 15 points 4 months ago

somewhat sure this won't fly under GDPR

though that might as weel end up in category "oh we did an oopsie haha! anyway here is our new ML model that can identify anyone! what do you mean? it doesn't store anyone's likeness you sillyy it's a just a little model"

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ToiletFlushShowerScream 6 points 4 months ago

Wow. Just wow.

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SparrowHawk 4 points 4 months ago

Man, it's gonna be so funny when the solar storm hits

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nehal3m 2 points 4 months ago

I can’t fucking wait

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