He arrested in Barcelona that recorded hundreds of women with their Ray-Ban Meta marks a before and after: we have entered the era of voyeurism invisible. We do not know when it will end, but we have just opened it.
Why is it important. Until now, recording without consent required obviousness (taking out the mobile) or sophistication (hidden cameras). The Meta Ray-Ban have democratized the undercover recording: for 329 euros not only have some sunglasses with good design and headphones incorporated, you also have an almost imperceptible camera in your face.
- When we tried them We commented that his camera was not too remarkable, but perceptible. By the news we understand that it is not as noticeable as we believed.
The context. As Antonio Ortiz analyzes in Error 500the Google Glass could not get here because they were too obvious. The finish lines are their antithesis: they look like normal glasses, the recording LED is tiny, and above all, people have not yet developed a social alarm before them.
Between the lines. We are in the period of maximum vulnerability: technology is already here, but no social consciousness. And the detainee exploded precisely that gap: he knew the abilities of these glasses, but his victims did not.
He recorded 329 videos (a Euro per video) without any of the women to be suspected of being recorded. Possibly the majority even knew about the existence of these glasses.
The threat. This is only the beginning. Goal prepares the functions of AI that will allow this camera to do much more. How to recognize. In fact already There are users who have managed to create homemade facial recognition systems With these glasses.
The next question is inevitable: how many conversations and private scenes are being recorded right now without us knowing?
Yes, but. Goal designed a double safeguard: LED light that detects if it has been covered (and blocks the camera) and sound when you start recording. The problem arises when a malicious user eludes them deliberately or when people do not know how to interpret them. In addition, the sound at the beginning of the recording is as easy to avoid how to start recording in advance.
New social conventions are clearly missing. We need to develop the same alarms we have when someone looks at us with a mobile whose camera points to us. Until that happens, Anyone with 329 euros And bad idea can become a camouflaged spy. Or in a voyeur With bad drool.
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