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Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses' (this.weekinsecurity.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by XLE@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.

And rightfully so.

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It read angry and defensive. You made a lot of cases for why they're "so great" like you had to convince more than me. Anyway, I know how they work, I'm a pretty big tech nerd myself, but at no point would I ever use their tech. This is a privacy group, so you can't defend a company that's known for spying on their customers. Apple might push themselves as privacy-focused, but maybe they just keep other "bad actors" from your data while they happily gather as much as they want and ~~share~~ sell to 3rd party partners.

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I’m going to need a source on Apple selling your data. Just one source is fine. They do push themselves as security focused, and they are very overpriced for what you’re getting. But I haven’t seen any news or sources of them actually breaking any of their privacy promises. They did give anonymized audio data to a third party contractor to quality grade their “hey siri” detection but this is something the user has to opt into. They have a better track record than Google, and back in 2009 when I was getting into smart phones, those were the only two options.