Yup, can’t wait to be tracked without my consent everywhere I go because of other people that want to pay money to become employed for free by private and government companies.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
For me at least, the killer feature is going to be tagging faces with names. Face blindness sucks.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Way to belittle people with disabilities. In case you’re unaware, I’m talking about a real condition.
Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one’s own face, is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing and intellectual functioning remain intact.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And that’s also the main reason I don’t want these to exist. I don’t want to be identified by random people, and I especially don’t want police to have access to something like this. People I spend time with know who I am, and I’m fine missing out on random same place/same time coincidences with people I knew from high school or something.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d want them to use a local database that you’ve created. After you’ve met someone, the glasses could be like “remember this person?” and you could choose to save them or not, or something like that.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Its meta so they’ll their hands on that data the way peoples numbers end up in metas hands despite not having a Facebook account because people gave the app permission to contacts.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’m not talking about a Meta made pair of glasses. I would never buy those due to the privacy issues. I’m talking about a potential pair of glasses that are open source, or at least privacy focused, and don’t phone home.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Yes. I’m all for an open specification, local only version of this.
But I don’t think Meta releasing a set of smart glasses leaves anyone (other than possibly Zuckerberg) better off.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
One could argue that without Meta’s investments into the technology, we might never get an open specification at all. With something like Valetudo, it wouldn’t exist without the privacy nightmare that is off-the-shelf robot vacuums.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one’s own face, is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing and intellectual functioning remain intact.
I’m talking about recognising people I’ve met and know.
markko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t see how that could realistically happen without whichever company is behind the glasses taking all that juicy biometric data for themselves though.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s up to the govts to protect the rights of the people. If you’re in the US, you’re already on the verge of losing all rights anyway. For the rest of the world, there’s no reason to think we couldn’t regulate it in a reasonably privacy-friendly way. Local face tagging and recognition could work without cloud access, so that you’d only have access to information you keyed in yourself about somebody.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sure. My point is that same technology can and will be used to violate peoples’ privacy, and in some cases could create dangerous situations (e.g. domestic violence victim being recognized by their attacker).
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
(e.g. domestic violence victim being recognized by their attacker)
Not sure how or why the attacker wouldn’t be able to recognise them normally.
My point is that same technology can and will be used to violate peoples’ privacy
Every technology can be used to do shitty stuff, and in most cases has been. It’s up to the govts to protect the rights of the people. If you’re in the US, you’re already on the verge of losing all rights anyway. For the rest of the world, there’s no reason to think we couldn’t regulate it in a reasonably privacy-friendly way. Local face tagging and recognition could work without cloud access, so that you’d only have access to information you keyed in yourself about somebody.
TwoDogsFighting@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
I don’t have face blindness, but I can’t remember names for the fucking life of me.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I learned about this recently in a anime!
The Apothecary Diaries - A main character has this disability.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This reminds me of Peacemaker, a guy claiming to be ‘bird blind’. Hilarious bit
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Tim Meadows was a great addition to season 2
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I knew it would be fun as soon as I saw him. Love Tim
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I have this, and I cannot stress enough how much this use case is not worth being recorded and tracked in public against my consent
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
There’s no reason it has to be one or the other, you’ve created a false dilemma. It’s perfectly possible to have the feature operate locally without recording / tracking.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Well, there is a reason, specific to these glasses. The reason is Meta.
If someone tells me they trust Meta not to break the law or violate their privacy, I assume they haven’t been paying attention to Meta in the news.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that we could use the hardware with 3rd party software. With the Quest line of VR headsets, Meta was pretty open to letting devs mess with the hardware. At least during the time I was using one.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Not a false dilemma at all. I’m not comfortable with being recorded onto some rando’s hard drive either. It’s still recording and tracking me against my consent.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Still a false dilemma. Recording you against your wishes is already against the law in some countries, and not required for the feature to actually function.