• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    No they’re probably right: it’s probably not on all the time, simply because the battery usage would be too high. What I mean was that it’s a rogue camera you can’t escape if the operator of the camera, or more likely Facebook, decides to turn it on for some purpose or other. I didn’t express myself properly.

    And it’s gonna get a lot worse when you’re in a room with dozens of people sporting those hateful surveillance things.

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      3 days ago

      I’m not assuming it would be a constant video recording because yeah I agree about the battery concerns. Rather I’m concerned it would be intervalic photos and audio recordings, maybe based on certain contexts?

      ie: mic picks up a new voice in the room, camera takes snapshot to identify the person and upload data to the cloud.

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        2 days ago

        Yep, just like Windows Recall. They don’t need to overturn privacy laws to break e2ee if they just take a screenshot of your Signal chat instead.

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        3 days ago

        That’s exactly my point: you can never tell when you’re going to be put under surveillance. And people generally aren’t comfortable around someone wearing one of those invasive recording devices - even if they’re only potentially invasive.

        That’s why Google gave up on their own smartglasses project.