Stefan Bohacek
Yeah, I know, Meta, and all. But this is a genuinely useful idea.
"Through this integration, the volunteer will see through the lens of the smart glasses in order to provide a real-time description to the user through their open-ear speakers, for everyday tasks such as setting a thermostat, finding the right supermarket aisle, or preparing meals—all while keeping the user's hands free."
https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-meta-accessibility-partnership
Aral Balkan
@stefan @rolle “We collect and store the video streams, photos, audio that pass through our Service as part of the normal functioning of the Services”
“If you do not want Be My Eyes to share your videos with third parties as described in the section above titled Video Streams, you can opt out of video sharing by emailing legal@bemyeyes.com and providing your name, account email address, and opt-out request.”
Disabled people deserve better than this.
Aral Balkan
@stefan @rolle Source: https://www.bemyeyes.com/privacy#accessible-cx
The choice shouldn’t be “either don’t see or have us see what you’re seeing also.” This is surveillance capitalism and people farming through and through. Only worse, because it is directly exploiting disabled people under the guise of helping them.
Stefan Bohacek
"I just want a more trustworthy company to copy this."
Aral Balkan
Sadly, we must fund such an organisation differently. Can’t be a startup. Can’t be part of this toxic system. Or we’ll just get more of the same; perhaps with better marketing.
Aral Balkan
@stefan @rolle The only way Mozilla can change course is if they somehow find $500,000,000 a year from some other source. (And no, they don’t need all that. If all they were doing was making a browser, one tenth would be more than enough. Heck, you could likely eke by on 1/100th.)
They didn’t veer off course. They’re “just another Silicon Valley tech company” as their head of public policy told me once (in the context of “I don’t understand why you’re holding us to such a higher standard…”)
Stefan Bohacek
@aral @rolle Yeah, I genuinely can't even name an existing company I'd trust with something like this.
(Maybe not too late for Mozilla to change course?)
Aral Balkan
@stefan @rolle (And yeah, this reminds of a startup I met at a conference once. Was sitting with their CEO at the speaker dinner and he was telling me how they found that their reading app really helped people with dyslexia. So I asked him how they made money. He looked at me like I was daft or something: “we know what you’re reading.”)
*smdh*
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