Meta’s Smart Glasses isn’t a smart move

Imagine being in a public space like a mall or a restroom and being filmed.

If you see someone pointing a camera at you or a smartphone at you, obviously you can find out. You will either yell at them or laugh it off, depending on how you take such a breach of privacy.

But what if you do not even realize that you are being filmed?

Meta has announced high-tech specs, unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg at the 2023 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, sparking a frenzy online.

The glasses feature two ultrawide 12 MP cameras, which allow wearers to record 1080p videos up to a minute in length. Wearers will also be able to live-stream footage to Instagram and Facebook.

Apart from discretely recording whatever it sees, the new accessory also features freakishly advanced AI capabilities, including the ability to identify places and objects that people are seeing in real-time — and instant translations of foreign languages.

A technology this powerful, at a cheap cost (it is priced at around 300 USD only), could wreak havoc in the wrong hands.

I just wish our tech entrepreneurs acted more responsibly rather than brashly trying to bring every possible technology to the mass market.