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Meta smart glasses criticised for sweeping voice and video data collection

Original: Did you think # Meta glasses were creepy? Were you concerned with # ANPR / # Flock ? Meet your new # masssurveillance ma

Critics are highlighting that Meta's smart glasses collect far more than previously understood, including voice recordings, video footage and physical data points about wearers and bystanders. The concerns are being raised alongside existing worries about automatic number plate recognition and Flock surveillance cameras, with some describing the glasses as a new form of mass surveillance.

Why now: New details about the scale of personal data collected by Meta smart glasses have reignited privacy and mass surveillance debates.

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• Did you think # Meta glasses were creepy? Were you concerned with # ANPR / # Flock ? Meet your new # masssurveillance master! Turns out: not only do Meta glasses collect your personal # data they’re also collecting tons of voice recordings, videos and physical datapoints to,… · gsrorive · 16

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