Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
More than a decade ago, Google introduced a pair of smart glasses called Google Glass. sparked a huge ethical debate Because wearable devices are being used to secretly film people without their permission.
There was anger then sanctified by the pejorative neologism “glass hole”” refers to a Google Glass user accused of having little respect for the privacy of those around him.
It seems like an eternity later that Meta tried to revive the idea. With Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Although this was a significant technological leap compared to Google’s initial breakthroughs, the debate seemingly remained the same.
While this is the case Daily Point According to reports, a New York subway driver accused a woman of breaking her Meta smart glasses.
“He just broke my Meta glasses,” the TikTok user, who uses Eth8n, said in a video that has since garnered millions of views.
“You will be famous on the internet!” she shouted at him from the window after getting off the train. However, the accused woman looked at him unimpressed, as if she was saying that she was waiting.
“I was making a funny noise that made people literally cry and laugh,” he claimed in the caption of a follow-up video. “He was the only one who got angry. I never spoke to him, I even let him sit when he got on the train at 42nd street, so I kept standing.”
But instead of coming to her support, the internet rallied wholeheartedly behind the alleged perpetrator, celebrating the woman as a folk hero and perfectly highlighting how the public feels about devices like Meta’s smart glasses.
“Good, people are tired of being filmed by strangers,” one user commented.
Another wrote: “The fact that no one on the train defended him shows that.”
“He’s perfect,” said another. gushed. “I hope she called him an idiot for wearing them before he broke them.”
Others accused the man of fabricating details of the incident.
“‘People were crying laughing’ – never heard such a plausible NYC subway story before,” one user wrote.
While Meta places a small LED light in front of his glasses to indicate that he is recording video, they can be easily covered with a small piece of tape, making it very easy to spy on strangers in public without their knowledge or consent. Like Daily Point points out that people are in an equal situation sell stickers for this particular purpose.
Meanwhile, eth8n claims that it “filed a lawsuit against the police and this is a misdemeanor charge.”
“What he did was assault, if I see him again and feel like that I could be arrested for it,” he wrote.
However, it is not yet known whether the mysterious woman will face any consequences for breaking her glasses or whether the public who admires her will turn her in.
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