Meta’s AI glasses have all sorts of alleged use cases. The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent. And Meta knows for a fact this is t…
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I just bought new glasses and got an IR-blocking lens coating that’s supposed to thwart facial recognition from things like these and Flock cameras and whatnot. It’s not active disruption via electronics, but it is a countermeasure…

    • stopdropandprole@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      I thought IR only applies to night vision or low light modes, which not all cameras even use.

      most surveillance cameras, including the ones being discussed in Meta glasses, just use regular optical sensors for well illuminated environments.

      wouldn’t IR blocking be completely useless when theres no Infrared LEDs projecting at you?

    • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
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      7 days ago

      Countermeasures are good, despite them not being active…It’s important to disrupt these terrible techs whenever possible!