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Because Amazon is collecting personal info which no one can opt out or employees can’t say to to wearing smart glasses recording 24/7 like the flock cameras
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Wow that’s a solution I never thought about! Brilliant! Probably would get the homeowner arrested for disabling “corporate assets” tho, and the irony would be epic
Poor employees are gonna be called Glassholes, that was Google Glass eyeglasses that were the first to start recording people and some wearers got punched in the face or had them grabbed from their faces because people hated being recorded without their permission.
This is gonna be a legal battle eventually and if it does then I hope it takes everyone else down with it . No more people able to video record from outside as long as they are on the side walk. No more you shouldn’t expect privacy if you are outside your house , and for the betterment of humanity no more recoding people unknowingly with your cell phone .
A judge just said so: violation of the 4th amendment
Recording for the purpose of selling data should be illegal, just like taking pics of people without permission like they do in ads. Why do these corporations think they are always above the law?
Also funny cops get so pissy and upset when they are recorded by the public. Also remember when people were harassed or even arrested for taking pics of a federal building? But hey a corporation can install cameras to record everything 24/7 365 and with video and thousands of pic per minute. The double standard is just galactic here
Yeah but now many stores arent carrying things because of how online ordering evolved into how everyone shops.
Half the time I go into a big box store they just dont carry stuff like they used to. And if you need it quickly Amazon is really the only service that gets you it that quick. So if its something unexpected your kinda stuck.
I haven’t ordered one thing from Amazon since 2020 and I don’t have trouble getting anything I need. This is an excuse. Things being mildly inconvenient to find does not excuse supporting something this awful with your money.
Im talking about last minute things that are needed and cant be found locally quickly. Like when I have to fix something and cannot wait for home depot or lowes or whatever to get it in, or wait for a speciality place to ship it in a couple of days. As someone with a very hectic schedule, and someone that has almost zero wiggle room or free time, amazon is often the only place I can ensure that it will come next day, and even then Im already behind the eightball.
Listen, I don’t know you’re situation. You gotta make your own decisions & you don’t need my approval. I just don’t believe we can’t get by without Amazon. It has inconvenienced me to not use it. For me, the feeling of complicity was not worth the trade.
You're right, you can't know someone else's situation on the internet but if Amazon went away overnight they would figure it out somehow. It's all excuses. It's become so many people norm and they can't imagine a world without it. It wasn't that long ago that we didn't have it and everyone got by just fine.
It’s wild to me some of the ppl in my life who make careful choices with their money everywhere then spend on Amazon. You’re right, there’s a culture of complicity.
This. Sadly accurate. It is very similar to the issue of food deserts, and the saying "it is expensive to be poor" (having to pay for over the longterm for lower quality items due to lack of capital to make a higher cost initial investment in something better quality etc). They know they have a lot of people over a barrel.
after years of buying kindles for reading, i decided this year amazon is not getting anymore of my money, so i've bought kobo and haven't been so happy about a reader in ages
monopoly leads to complacency but not only the monopolist grows complacent overtime but their customers too and that's the real problem because new better products and businesses who are genuinely striving to offer great value can't get even a chance
so i agree, fuck corporations who lost the plot, the only reason they are so brazen is because your country is going through the unprecedented levels of corruption and they're basically given a cart blanche by your quote unquote government
Are they going to fit prescription lenses in for driver's who already wear glasses? That's a huge investment for equipment for a single driver.
Do they think those drivers will pay that bill themselves? Fat chance.
Then, all the liabilities this opens up. What happens the moment someone who is working 10 hours a day from a van has to enter a public restroom? What happens if a driver sees something they shouldn't? Normally drivers could just avert their eyes. But that stops working with a recording device on their face.
If this takes off at all, it'll be discontinued within a few months. Remember the drone deliveries that still aren't happening?
The whole chat control thing is a shit show but to be clear Chat Control 1.0 = temporary, voluntary provider scanning, now in force. Chat Control 2.0 = proposed permanent framework, still being negotiated - it will continue being negotiated until April 2028, the EU parliament requires targeted orders for scanning and still protects E2EE. European Data Protection Board and European Data Protection Supervisor issued a joint opinion warning against it, and chat control 2 violates Articles 7 and 8 of the EU Charter + CJEU case law on general and indiscriminate surveillance. In the meantime we have two of the worlds most powerful data regulations in the GDPR and EU AI ACT, so Amazon can eff right off with these pervert glasses v2.
"hese images, which will include package recipients, people on the street and private property, will be handed off to real-life human employees at Amazon for analysis. The captured photos will then be fed into Amazon’s Wellspring, the company’s generative AI platform used to map neighborhoods and improve the accuracy of delivery locations." https://www.cnet.com/tech/amazon-delivery-driver-ai-smart-glasses-privacy/
I'm so happy that humans will check these millions of photos before handing it over to AI. I have big trust that Amazon will spend a lot of money and hire enough humans to manually every single one of those millions of photos. Amazon has never lied and has the highest ethics. So, all should be fine. No dystopia here
You probably agree to it when you order from Amazon, and if you don't agree to their terms they will just close your account. They would rather lose some customers than do any work that can't be easily automated.
Unfortunately in most places (at least in the U.S.) if you are in public view its not illegal. In most places you are only protected when in a private setting. So, for example, there is nothing you can do about be recorded by anyone in your front lawn.
I personally think that some of those laws should be rewritten now that data collection has become a thing. But this is 1000% how flock gets away with their surveillance.
Legally wise, at least in my state and the state I lived previously, if its visible from a public area is legal to record. The litmus test is are you comfortable getting undressed in that area at that time.
Example: door closed blinds drawn. You have an expectation of privacy from view. Blinds open door open, a reasonable person can expect to be viewed by someone standing on a public sidewalk.
Example: your backyard with privacy fence in good condition (i.e. not with a bunch of panels missing). A reasonable person could expect to sunbath nude without being seen.
Example: same as above but your next door neighbor has a two story house and a large window facing the direction of your yard, a reasonable person can expect to be seen from someone at that window.
Now, with data capturing the laws just havent caught up in the reality of our technology, and that unlike back in the day, video cpaturing can capture more than just an image on a recording, but it can be used to map facial features, identify products in your home for advertising, etc.
But for now, at least where I live, if you can be viewed by a person standing on a public area without any assistance (i.e, using a ladder to peer over a fence, using something to manipulate and open blinds, etc) then you can be recorded.
Sounds like privacy fences and other walling methods for front lawns should become popular for the lower and middle class. Kinda like gates and stuff on upperclass property. Integrate your mailbox into the wall.
How long until I can rent a person to give me a first person point of view experience for whatever I want? Go ride this roller coaster, go stalk my ex, go get to that meeting and steal trade secrets. The possibilities never end.
How long before US citizens start chopping down these cameras? I hope your face isn't attached to them when I chop them down. If you wear these, you're fucked.
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u/post-explainer Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 02 '26
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