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DuckDuckGo claims its anti-pervert sunglasses are the real deal (cybernews.com)
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Since Meta launched its AI-powered Ray-Bans, which can record video and audio as well as make calls, there’s been a growing privacy backlash against the specs, with many dubbing them “pervert” glasses after they were reportedly used to film people without their consent. (...)

Never one to miss an opportunity to take a public swipe at big tech, the alternative search engine DuckDuckGo has now launched a new range of glasses in collaboration with the San Diego firm Knockaround (...)

The twist: with their permanent offline mode, zero cameras and mics, no AI or electronics of any kind, the “California cool” Paso Robles have been hailed as "the world's most innovative anti-surveillance sunglasses," AKA "Normal F***ing Sunglasses” according to Knockaround’s website.

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[–] Echo5@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Zennioptical has a coating that messes up facial recognition and I thought this would be along the lines of that. Womp womp. Would like to see those coatings become more popular. Also agree with other commenters that some sort of active countermeasure would be interesting, idk what though.