piefed.eeMeta glasses using private footage for training AI
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Well yeah. The people who buy these things are disturbing individuals. Kinda goes with the territory.
Except if you think about it, this is possible with smartphones too. They have cameras in the front and the back. The phone just has to be vertical. But docks and holders take care of that. The only thing left is the camera to be recording. Sure there are permission systems. But they’re all software. No physical switches or indicators for safety. You won’t know even if it’s recording. And if it’s recording, it will uploading it just as easily. We’re addicted to a spy device.
Some phones do have hardware switches, but they’re certainly the exception.
Whether our phones are surreptitious spy devices when they’re oriented correctly and have adversarial software running is very different from, “I’m going to buy always-on camera glasses and send the data to one of the most untrustworthy companies on the planet,” the latter of which was my point.
The reality can be messy. Meta contractors based in Nairobi, Kenya, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten in a recently published joint investigation that they’re being told to review highly sensitive and intimate data.
“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed,” one contractor for a company called Sama said. “I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording.”
“I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told the newspapers. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.”
Other footage included imagery of people’s bank cards, users watching porn, or even filming entire “sex scenes.”
An employee added that they felt forced to watch and annotate or else risk losing their job.
“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” the employee said. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”
Buried in Meta’s AI terms of use, the company reserves the right to have the company “review your interactions with AIs, including the content of your conversations with or messages to AIs, and this review can be automated or manual (human).”
The document also warned that users shouldn’t share information that “you don’t want the AIs to use and retain, such as information about sensitive topics.”
But given the kind of information data annotators are being asked to review, many users don’t appear to be aware of that last piece of advice.
Worst of all, owners of Meta’s AI glasses simply don’t have the option of making use of the AI features without agreeing to share data shared with Meta’s remote servers. And once the data is sent, it’s already often too late.
Holy fuck. Recording people undressing etc. is bad enough, but it never occurred to me that they’d also be recording sensitive financial details like credit card numbers. This is a cyber criminals wet dream…
JFC. These fucking people are pedophiles. All these people monitoring should be in a fucking jail cell
Why would Meta workers need to see anything from these cameras *at all*?
It’s fucking Facebook. Their entire mission is to gobble as much about your private life as possible, through any means possible.
So it’s just corporate invasion of privacy all over again.
It never really stopped. Even after Cambridge Analytica, Meta was allowed to go back to business as usual with barely a slap on the wrist.
That people keep buying their products and using their platforms and then being shocked to find out they’ve been used is honestly people’s own ignorant fault.
These things should probably be banned, and Facebook dissolved with its leadership punished for their crimes.
__反いじめ戦隊If you’re dumb enough to spend hundreds of dollars on a Facebook spy camera that you wear on your face, you get what’s coming to you, as far as I’m concerned.
There are innocent bystanders being surveiled without consent involved though.
Colonel Panicwhy are they seeing anything at all? oh wait it’s fuckerberg, never mind
AeriThe fact that there are contractors reviewing my footage would be enough to stop me from buying them even if I didn’t already hate em.
OFC they are
If you are dumb enough to use glasses like these, you deserve it. Who would ever trust Meta of all companies with everything you see and hear?
Sure, but what about all the people those idiots encounter who didn’t consent to this at all?
It’s worse than that, the idiots wearing Meta Glasses are recording everything in front of their stupid fucking faces. They’re potentially endangering every single person that they come into contact with.
Can’t wait for the class action lawsuit. Everyone gets a $10 visa gift card and free credit monitoring for a year.
No, all you get is a long advertisement video from Meta, that shows what the AI will be capable in the future, if we let it break things in the present, similar in style to those propaganda videos made by the automotive industry, to get more funding for highways.
People that buy these things and support Meta, deserve all the shit that comes with that. Fuck them.
There was an article yesterday that said that Meta employees get all of the footage too. So no private time while wearing them.
Do they wear them in the bathroom at facebook HQ too? “Look at my piss and shit!” they say into the microphones to each other. “Chat what is this red bump?”
I doubt it, because they know what they can do.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/03/03/what-privacy-as-expected-meta-ray-bans-are-a-privacy-disaster
It should be socially acceptable to punch these fuckers in the face. How do I recognize those glasses?
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
There’s app for that, no seriously.
Love the CYA warning in all caps lmao.
interesting, they are distributing the app on free app stores:
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses
Thanks. Not on my F-Droid main repo by default and I am not a big fan of apps, but at least they are trying.
Agreed. Currently the cameras are pretty easy to spot from punching distance.
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You think you own things. How quaint.
I am SHOCKED