r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 13 '26

Society The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

https://tech.yahoo.com/wearables/articles/backlash-strong-people-pervert-glasses-165000816.html
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u/The_Doctor_Bear Jul 13 '26

You genuinely believe that despite being an absolute fucking menace to privacy and privacy rights the world over for some reason he actually does respect your privacy in this one specific app?

Get real man, they’re spying on you as hard as they can via WhatsApp. And spoiler alert; they can see it all.

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u/12345623567 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

They already killed end-to-end encryption recently. Nobody cared. Then they force-installed their shitty AI spybot, still no uproar.

It's going to take a massive data leak of everyone's identifiable DMs for something to happen.

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u/marxr87 Jul 13 '26

source on killing end to end encryption?

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u/grantrules Jul 14 '26

I think they may be confusing it with Instagram ending e2e encryption (which I imagine most people didn't use anyways)

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u/metahipster1984 Jul 13 '26

Yeah I think I would've heard about this...

Gemini says it's still there.

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u/I_always_rated_them Jul 13 '26

I think it was removed from Instagram but its still active on whatsapp.

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u/oCanadia Jul 13 '26

Thing is, cloud backups are by default NOT encrypted. So even if you turn it on I guarentee 99.9% of people you converse with have cloud backups on and unencrypted by default....so not only unencrypted but stored on their servers. Imo worthless

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u/pijudo_95 Jul 13 '26

Cloud backups are stored in either Google or Apple’s cloud storage, not Meta’s.

Apparently that might change soon though, I saw somewhere that they’re planning on having their own cloud storage solution bundled with WhatsApp Plus

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u/oCanadia Jul 13 '26

Ok, sure. That's good to know. Regardless, if someone cares about end to end encryption, they should be aware all their convos likely are being stored on "a" server unencrypted regardless. Unless everyone has turned off cloud backups or turned on encryption for them. Hardly end to end encryption at that point.

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u/Geminii27 Jul 13 '26

Even then, nothing will happen.

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u/Ex-altiora Jul 13 '26

And even then there's gonna be mass protests in the streets about it but too many people in power will be afraid of status quo disruption to do anything about it

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u/IzarkKiaTarj Jul 13 '26

They said absolutely nothing regarding privacy, so I'm not sure why you responded regarding that?

They only said he does essentially own the "entire system" because of Whatsapp.

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u/Shiftkgb Jul 14 '26

Have family in 4 other countries on 3 different continents, they all exclusively use WhatsApp. The US and Canada (Mexico?) really seem to be the exception everywhere in regards to WhatsApp 

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u/TwilightVulpine Jul 13 '26

I hate using it, but getting people over here to use anything else is like pulling teeth. So I either do, or I don't get to talk to my family, friends, business, so forth...

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u/Malsententia Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Anyone using something other than Signal or similar is a fool.

EDIT: For anyone wondering, Signal is provably end to end secure, and both the server and client are open source. It's possible to create a third party client for it, but nobody's bothered. There's plenty of reasons to be paranoid about plenty of things, but this ain't one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/1pagr3r/is_signal_genuinely_private/

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u/JannyStabberXK4000 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Signal, the closed protocol service with a central server? Lol ok bro. Go ahead and have your "privacy". 👍

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If you do anything but host your own server (I would go with Wire) and expect privacy, then you are a fool, a chump, and a mark. Dunning Kruger is WILD

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u/Cocalypso Jul 13 '26

This something I’m currently concerned about. But I know nothing. What is wire? I was looking at getting me and mine on Threema. Is it any good? I already know we are cooked daily with everything else we happily pay for to spy on us constantly. We lost it all with apathy.

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u/ShakyBoots1968 Jul 13 '26

Or anyone using something similar is a fool, in truth.