US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them

dmitrygr

Why? As they say: no expectation of privacy in the public space, amirite?

atrus

They'll be fine. As the police often say, if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide.

jordanb

I feel like this is a submarine ad for the glasses by Meta.

dentemple

Clearly, all Big Tech needs to do is to create some version of "Flock-powered" smart glasses and, all of a sudden, U.S. police will become Meta's biggest cheerleaders here.

moh_maya

“Cops apprehensive about impending Orwellian state”

pjc50

The panopticon is only supposed to look out, not in.

itsmartapuntocm

Why did they do something wrong?

ratelimitsteve

aren't these the same people telling us that AI-powered cameras on every street corner will make everything better for everyone? What do they have to fear from people seeing what they do? Why do the police fight so hard to ensure everyone else is constantly being observed but also to ensure that they are never being observed? Ostensibly, police act in our name and to our benefit. Why are we kept in the dark as to what they do?

morkalork

How long until a random person wearing Raybans in one of those states that banned recording within X-feet of an officer gets shot?

2PqboPPmKegvanx

don't they know? >“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

samrus

I do love the irony and schedenfruede, but this isnt about recording in public areas, its about recording the inside of prisons and ICE concentration camps. That is generally not something you can legally record and is analogous to a flock camera inside your office or house, which most people would agree is bad

exe34

I know that mass surveillance is inevitable, which is why I would prefer the circle to 1984. If they're watching us, we might as well watch them.

michaelhillaert

Probably police officers will start to use them as well at some point in the future...

jimt1234

Every time I've interacted with the police while wearing sunglasses (when I was younger and lived near the beach) they've instructed me to remove them. I was told they need to see my pupils to get an idea if I'm under the influence. Not saying I agree with any of this, just saying the cops already have a way to negate the creepy sunglasses.

aaroninsf

The pretense that meta will not simply - prevent or more likely perform but withhold and deny existence of recordings of policing - give police total access to "private" recordings is ludicrous. Meta is literally a surveillance company which as a side hustle addicts people to feeds which destroy their mental health and social relationships and sense of self worth, in service of keepting them docile, consuming, and politically steered.

YarickR2

Fear not; they _will_ be used to secretly record them.

declan_roberts

This kind of thing just reeks as a meta marketing ploy. My eyes were opened when I started attending some marketing all-hands at my last FANG employer. They do this kind of thing all of the time.

ck2

wait 'til they learn watches now can record them and upload in realtime via LTE smartwatches are also just one or two generations away from having cameras

greenavocado

The police do not care. They already have iPhones stuck in their face the millisecond they pull someone over.