Janus Rose reports:
With Meta’s new range of smart glasses, Mark Zuckerberg is pitching a vision of the future that sci-fi authors have been warning about for decades — one where privacy is truly dead, and everyone is recording everyone else at all times.
This in itself is nothing new. Introduced at the company’s recent Meta Connect event, the glasses represent the tech industry’s second major attempt at normalizing ubiquitous wearable surveillance devices, more than a decade after Google’s failed entry into the space with Google Glass. Back then, people wearing the experimental (and stupid-looking) tech were mocked as “Glassholes” — reminiscent of characters from Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, where despicable high-tech busybodies called “gargoyles” make a living by scanning and snitching on everyone around them for a Google-esque company called the Central Intelligence Corporation.
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Of course, it didn’t take long for the inevitable to happen. Photos have already emerged showing CBP and ICE agents wearing Meta smart glasses during immigration raids in Los Angeles and Chicago. And last week, the University of San Francisco’s Department of Public Safety sent an alert to students after a man wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses was seen recording and harassing women on campus.
Read more at The Verge.