Below are posts associated with the “smart glasses” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses
Hard to pick a single killer line from this one. There’s this paragraph:
Appreciate for a moment the bind Meta finds itself in: Its product allowed customers to behave so objectionably that the company responded with a content ban, as if to say “Stop making us look bad.”
And then this conclusion hits hard:
In saying the company will police the creepiest version of smart glasses content but sidestepping deeper questions, Meta is trying to have it both ways: It gets to tout its enforcement while creating the conditions for this content to exist in the first place.
🔗 linkblog: Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
Hate this so much. The company statements are weaselly and gross. This also demonstrates one of the worst things about this whole issue. I would never buy Meta smart glasses, but I know two people in my life who own them, and the privacy burden of this product isn’t borne by the owner of the device so much as by those around them. Barf, barf, barf.
🔗 linkblog: Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch
Don’t think I’ve posted anything on this story yet because as the article points out, it’s hard to focus on this evil with so many other evils distracting us.