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New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses (www.politico.eu)

submitted 7 hours ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 30 points 6 hours ago

The battery law is "so broad and so restrictive that it prevents the sale of this wonderful, jointly developed, U.S.-European product from being sold in the European Union..."

No. Meta chose to design e-waste.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 27 points 7 hours ago

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago

Based EU

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 6 hours ago

https://www.androidauthority.com/p-3674350/

[+] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Hypothetical question: if I invented glasses that told me when people were lying, would they be accepted or would there be an angry uprising to ban them?

edit: reminder - clicking an arrow is not an answer, it means you don't have one.

edit: why the douchevotes and silence on this? The only responder just deflected the question. It seems to me that taking lying out of human interaction would be a plus. Isn't the idea at least interesting?

[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Would depend how they work, but assuming we're using conventional technology and not some magic doohickey that can 100% verify the truth, then you'd probably just get shunned by your peers. Technology cannot accurately verify whether someone is lying unless it's about an objective fact, and even then, its database may be out of date when someone's informing you of a new discovery. If you're using an LLM, then it may just make random shit up. And if you're using a corporate LLM, then you're transmitting everything you see and hear to some corporation, where they may keep that data for whatever they please, simply so you can have a popup that tells you either a lie itself, or something you should be able to surmise by yourself. You're not a corporation, so likely people wouldn't revolt against the glasses like they do against Facebook's, they'd just stop talking to you.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm talking about detecting dishonest intent, not fact checking.

[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

As am I. Technology cannot accurately discern intent. Fact checking is the easiest way to do that, and only applies to objective truths. Outside of fact checking, it's completely guessing, and wouldn't be reliable enough to be useful to anyone.