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AZJonnie

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14. It's certainly possible that it was recorded with consent, yes
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:54 PM
16 hrs ago

I mean, I don't personally see any naked people or people having sex unless it's me and/or my partner, do you?

Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after an investigation by Swedish newspapers found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor are reviewing footage from customers’ glasses, which included sensitive content, like nudity, people having sex, and using the toilet.


The context seems clear to me by this statement that the users are the ones pissed that their OWN privacy was abridge via the subcontractors viewing their (the users) private content they recorded with their glasses.

And I believe the Meta policy refers to the thing you POST like on Facebook and Instagram. They are informing you that THAT stuff (content that you create, share, post, or upload) is not "private", that it belongs to Meta.

Use of the glasses is a different thing, couples could use them to record themselves having sex, expecting that they would be the only ones that have permission to view that content (that's not a 'post', but it probably does get recorded to the cloud), but the subcontractors have violated that expectation, ergo, THEY are the "perverts".

Though I suppose it's possible someone could like go to a sex club with them on and record others having sex w/o their consent, I'm not saying its impossible to record that kind of content surreptitiously, more clandestinely than they could with a phone. But then I don't see how subcontractors viewing the materials are the proper ones to bust them for doing so. You think there should be a staff of "police" overseeing everything everyone records to find that sort of thing, when the vast majority of people expect their glasses video content to be private?

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Why does every technological advance always end in people watching more porn and weird bathroom things? Scrivener7 Friday #1
You have to ask? Wounded Bear Friday #5
I suspect this is more about people who DON'T get sex than people who do. Scrivener7 Friday #7
Generally, yes, but not universally...nt Wounded Bear Friday #9
In a strange way this is backwards. Porn has driven many of the technological advances. unblock Friday #8
That is so perfect LearnedHand Friday #2
I saw quite a few people calling users of Meta glasses "glassholes" as well, copying the nickname highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #11
Kick SheltieLover Friday #3
Perverted control freak. blm Friday #4
Google glass/2014 cbabe Friday #6
This moniker does not make sense to me AZJonnie Friday #10
The perverts who record them in the first place i guess LearnedHand 17 hrs ago #12
You don't have to be a "pervert" or "creep" to record your partner naked/having sex with you in consenting fashion AZJonnie 16 hrs ago #15
The perverts are the people who recorded that footage of others without consent. Or are you assuming highplainsdem 17 hrs ago #13
It's certainly possible that it was recorded with consent, yes AZJonnie 16 hrs ago #14
It's possible, but certainly not guaranteed, that the recording was consensual. But not everyone will highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #16
I would assume those are all referring to uploads to their public sites like Facebook and Instagram AZJonnie 15 hrs ago #17
I didn't say that those glasses being called pervert glasses is due to the lawsuit. That nickname is highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #18
That's what I took you to be implying with your whole argument about my "selective" reading of the contract AZJonnie 15 hrs ago #19
I've been very clear about AI companies and AI bros being fundamentally dishonest. Their highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #20
So, now the lawsuit is back to being about third-party privacy complaints? AZJonnie 13 hrs ago #21
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