Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.
And rightfully so.
Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.
And rightfully so.
The prevalence of negative impacts is absolutely a reason to push back on these specific glasses.
Due to aphantasia and ADHD, I would love to be able to manually record and store locally what I am seeing in a wide variety of situations. That guy I talked to about the thing? What was his name and what did he look like? All I remember is he had curly hair and he had a common name. Being able to play back the introduction would let me refresh myself to keep up with people who remember a large number of names and faces in a short period of time. If I do something like work on my PC being able to record as I go without needing to set up the phone on a stand and hope I don’t block it would be great.
Yeah, the negatives outweigh the positives and fuck meta for using what could be a great assistance device to collect everything they interact with instead of it being a locally stored thing that decent people could use.
this is the problem with great tech, it can be used for valid purposes like yours, or for nefarious purposes, and the maker doesn’t fuckin care.
if this was a product made by a reputable company I’d say go for it, but considering their wretched history of invasive garbage, I’d hold out for a better take.
I’m setting up a viture luma to do something like this as well as have a HUD like interface for task tracking, like you’d have in video games. That said I’m taping the camera looking thing and I’m just going to use my phone when I need to take pictures or video. I’m setting it up where I could just transfer needed data directly whenever possible to avoid needing to use my phone camera. Most likely if i do use photos, it will be more of a photo journal than recording everything I see. This is mostly to try to keep others comfort and privacy in mind even though it would be stored locally on a raspberry pi.
Technically I could ask people if I could record them using my phone but it would be awkward to do so and worse for social interactions that my current methods of discreetly asking people who they are and hoping for a list of participants with photos.
Right, though if you could get by with a single photo, you might be able to use a photo from their social media, and use a description when that isn’t available.