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Cake day: March 12th, 2025
  • wuffah@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Who uses Meta glasses?English
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    25 days ago

    The surveillance society has already been normalized to a new generation of young people. This is simply the next step. The answer to “who uses Meta glasses?” is everyone, because it’s now normal to record and upload everything you do so you might as well have a camera conveniently placed in your stylish and trendy new glasses.

    In the same way that it is weird or suspicious to not have a Facebook or Instagram plastered with your face, your friends faces, your cat, and enviable deeds and exploits, it will become weird to complain about being recorded by someone’s glasses - “Why, what are you hiding? What don’t you want us to see? What are you so afraid of?” The biggest sacrifice we’ve made is not the right to privacy, but to even value and understand what it is and why it is important; the very idea of privacy is eroded.

    The campaign to label this phenomena a perversion has the right idea, but the wrong scope. Tech does not push these devices to enable sexual perverts, they push them to sell us the means of our own surveillance and to expand their data gathering capabilities by perverting what is viewed as normal when it comes to privacy. Being surreptitiously recorded in private spaces is just the beginning - imagine a society in which it is common and normal to have a camera in every other pair of glasses, and for it to be impossible to know when and where you may be recorded.

    They did this with cell phones, now they’re doing it with glasses, TVs, cars, and anything else they can cram a camera, a microphone, a modem, and a computer in.

  • wuffah@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigationEnglish
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    30 days ago

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is updating vehicle standards to make it easier and faster for driverless cars to deploy on public roads. It’s currently tweaking eight rules, including those requiring car parts that driverless cars don’t really need: brake pedals, windshield wipers, and rearview mirrors. But for now, years-old standards remain in place.

    Beyond private companies using tax dollars to manage their special regulatory environment, privatize and monetize public roads, and test their unfinished and unregulated products on citizens, I expect these to be fully-equipped roving surveillance and oppression machines:

    • Each car can be covertly equipped with a suite of LPR or facial recognition cameras, sensors, and signals intelligence equipment.

    • Autonomous cars can patrol and surveil large areas to gather intelligence while acting as innocuous taxis.

    • Journalists, brown people, or pregnant woman making the mistake of entering one of these could simply be recognized and driven to a “detention” center for arrest.

    • Vehicles can autonomously work in tandem to hunt down and assault other vehicles, or serve as transport for domestic military operations, or blockade roads.

    • Service can be selectively denied to certain areas or social groups to curtail and manage movement during protests or events.

    I mean, just use your imagination as to how an authoritarian federal government could collude with a Fascist tech CEO to leverage a large autonomous robo-taxi fleet set upon the population: