Post #1921538
2026-05-03 17:11 UTC
Replies (38)
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@CressSalad@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 17:52
@danyork I can only imagine whats going on the meta servers as someone goes down the high street wearing these - "person x identified via facebook face recognition, walking with person b - known and 1 other child also known, 1 adult unknown... etc etc... unknowns passed to human team for categorisation" That company and its CEO makes my skin crawl, IMHO totally unlawful data collection and use in public!
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@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 2026-05-03 18:09
@danyork This is beautiful.
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@JMMaok@mastodon.online 2026-05-03 18:14
@danyork At a local art and craft fair last year, I saw several signs that photos were not allowed. (Those of you who go to more events like this have probably seen a lot more of these signs...) I assume this was people trying to avoid having cheap copies of their creations mass produced. Not sure how effective that was for them, but Meta glasses can only be making the situation worse.
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@starraven@mastodon.scot 2026-05-03 18:21
@danyork Classic spy pen it is, then. Sorry, but in this day and age, evidence is protection.
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-03 18:27
@danyork Meta's owner will whine with his orange friend and the shops with such ban will be issued a cease and desist order all over the American Reich. Those abroad will face new tariffs.
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@derrydavis@techhub.social 2026-05-03 18:41
@danyork faraday cages for all!
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@anantagd@ieji.de 2026-05-03 19:17
@danyork I bet they have lots of touchscreen only kiosks in their shop #blind
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@meanidea@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 19:20
@danyork This probably less about the privacy of their workers and more about preventing pricing research.
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@ozone89@techhub.social 2026-05-03 19:23
@danyork guess you missed the "no glassholes" movement back in 2014 https://hackaday.com/2014/06/05/fight-the-google-glass-cyborgs-with-glasshole-sh/
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@cyon@ennexis.de 2026-05-03 19:32
@danyork Respect
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@Shadedlady@mstdn.social 2026-05-03 19:33
@danyork i hope they make an exception for blind people that use these as ectr help with the be my eyes app
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@lost_in_chaos@mstdn.social 2026-05-03 19:39
@danyork @aramba
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@ovoao@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 19:46
@danyork I feel pity for the lost souls that have to take off their prescription meta ray bans at this shop, and are forced to blindstumble through the aisles trying to fingerguess what they're holding. "Errr... Excuse me, how much is this banana?" "Sir, this a sex shop not a grocery store."
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@hans_zelf@mas.to 2026-05-03 19:56
@danyork I run an app on my phone that sounds an alarm whenever meta glasses come near me.
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@LukefromDC@kolektiva.social 2026-05-03 19:57
@danyork If this was my shop, I would keep the sign but add an "except blind customers" note to it. Someone doing price research (an adverse party) has lots of cheaper and harder to detect spy cam options. Allowing this use would however require having nothing in the shop that could put me or another person in danger if passed to Meta. Use of these glasses by a sighted person I consider absolutely intolerable. On the other hand, any thing that can pass visual data to someone who has lost use of their eyes might be the difference between being their able to continue their life or not. Someone needs to come up with a hack to allow blind folks to use these as eyes without passing data around them to Meta, who is sure to abuse it. This could be done either of two ways. One is to hack the firmware to connect to an activist-owned server that does not store user data instead of Meta. Store only maps from OpenStreetMap etc, and process the video with a program that can identify clear corridors indoors and send that data back to the user. Do not store it. The other approach would be to use a connection to a local computer with enough processing power to turn raw video into navigational directions. Hopefully a laptop in a backpack could not handle that. Problem with a special version of these glasses sold for use by the blind would be sale (and thus PRICING) as "medical devices." Nobody would be able to afford them. Also zero advantage if the data is still handled by a corporate server. A hacked set of these on the other hand, connected to a phone or laptop to run the software instead of sending it to Meta, and maybe inscribed text on the glasses saying "I am blind-these are my eyes" could do wonders.
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@mazigazi@dobbs.town 2026-05-03 20:08
@danyork a simple “no assholes” sign does the same thing
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@frang@meow.social 2026-05-03 20:23
@danyork good.. shun the next (and all) iteration(s) of glassholes.
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@feliks@chaos.social 2026-05-03 20:27
@danyork there's a nice ISO 7010 P044
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@Sh41@androiddev.social 2026-05-03 20:29
@danyork if you've been around long enough, you do remember the "Glassholes" when Google glass was originally unveiled back in 2013
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@PizzaDemon@mastodon.online 2026-05-03 20:30
@danyork We obviously don't frequent the same strip clubs
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@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-03 20:32
@danyork I'd feel more comfortable seeing a fellow customer in a restaurant with holstered pistol than I would than one wearing those panopticon goggles. safer
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@elfin@mstdn.social 2026-05-03 20:34
@danyork FAcebook was founded on the idea of being creepy as fuck and stalking folk. Creepy as fuck. Mark is a voyeur, always has been. So this is just more of the same.
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@paneerakbari@mas.to 2026-05-03 20:42
@danyork people buying these are ot considering such circumstances where their (precious) consumer choices aren't sacrosanct to all others And now they're getting these things with prescription lenses, so removing them becomes onerous and "unreasonable"
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@Lstn2urmama4@zeroes.ca 2026-05-03 20:43
@danyork for starters WHAT are Meta glasses or anything Meta for that matter ??? No one is going to pay attention to something unknown ...🤔
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@lbenedix@chaos.social 2026-05-03 20:47
@danyork there is an ISO standard for warning signs. One of them is this:
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@amazing_helenab@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 20:54
@danyork hmmm, guessing that’s in connection to AI too.
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@ravelin@mindly.social 2026-05-03 20:58
@danyork time to bring back "don't be a #glasshole " from the old Google glass days.
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@saxnot@chaos.social 2026-05-03 21:01
@danyork back in the day of the Google Glass we called them #Glassholes
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@neilo@glasgow.social 2026-05-03 21:02
@danyork I am 100% behind this
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@DanMorgan@vmst.io 2026-05-03 21:07
@danyork@mastodon.social Raybans are going from a symbolic shorthand for “cool” to “get the fuck out, creep” in record time.
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@spencer@motley.club 2026-05-03 22:09
@hypolite @danyork @DanMorgan As someone who wears Ray-Bans but would never dream of wearing Meta's perv glasses: absolutely warranted, but unfortunate.
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@kcpoole@mastodon.au 2026-05-03 21:20
@danyork excellent idea If anyone cone near me with em on I'll rip them off I don't want to be recorded without my knowledge
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@Mage_of_Chaos@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 21:30
@danyork I am nauseous but this is wonderful. I lost a job once because other people taking pictures of me on the job without my permission. Company said no pictures. People kept taking pictures of me. :(
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@MJmusicinears@mastodon.world 2026-05-03 22:51
@danyork this spying on each other shit is ridiculous
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@MattMerk@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 23:25
@danyork I love it. Metaglass wearers are just the new glassholes. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Glasshole
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@archivescribe@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 23:37
@danyork Just wait until Apple combines VisionOS “lite” with those Ray-Ban glasses. It’s going to get much worse for privacy.
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@RVLara23@mastodon.social 2026-05-03 23:57
@danyork Definitely love the push back, I'm just wondering about actual enforcement of such a thing.
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@andyd@social.secret-wg.org 2026-05-07 09:26
@danyork@mastodon.social “Other brands fine”