They look like regular RayBans, but Meta’s new smart glasses are anything but, sparking fears of a surge in stalking, child abuse, bullying and domestic violence.
Hidden cameras and microphones have transformed the eyewear into surveillance tools sold for less than $500.
Anti-bullying advocates have called for a ban in schools and legal experts say there are gaps in Australian privacy law.
It comes as Harvard students recently proved how easily the glasses could be paired with facial recognition technology to create real-time tracking devices that identify the
strangers around them.
Bully Zero chief executive Janet Grima said the glasses “should absolutely be banned in schools as they could easily be weaponised by bullies to record or capture embarrassing
private moments of their peers, especially without permission.”
“Whether it’s at school, in the workplace, in public places like the beach, we don’t know what’s going to be recorded, how it’s going to be used and how it then implicates the life of
the individual recorded.”
Ray-Ban's Smart Meta glasses look very stylish and versatile, which can be used as a camera, integrated AI, even as a phone. However, any high-tech products comes with negative consequences. It is a double-edged sword. The question is how people should use it. We should still encourage the development of high technology, but people's moral education is also important. On the other hand, people should also find strategies to deal with problems which produced by using high-tec products.
ReplyDeleteyes..can man control technology, or will technology control man..??
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