Now we just need to use the user information to check their net worth, and if it’s above a certain amount it needs to hover a quest marker above that person. I’m curious to see how long before privacy laws get stronger.
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
Submitted 1 month ago by notveddev@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If it’s a billionaire it’s just a combat marker.
b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
We can use augmented reality to turn them into a chicken drumstick or a nice juicy steak.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Didn’t know Watch Dog was becoming a reality!?
prole@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They’ll probably just end up making (a very expensive) method of obscuring themselves from the recognition tech. That way they won’t need to pass any laws, and ad companies (or cops or anyone else who knows how to jailbreak their hardware. Probably) can still take advantage of the technology in some way.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 month ago
This is what will happen.
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Exactly. The rich will be able to buy privacy, while the rest become ever easier to exploit.
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
at this point, masking up in public provides protections for health and privacy
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Apple already demonstrated that you can still get pretty darn close from eyes and hair. Combine that with a bit of logic (There is a 40% chance this is Sally Smith but she also lives three streets over and works on that street) and you still have very good odds.
Well… unless you are black, brown, or asian. Since the facial recognition tech is heavily geared toward white people because tech bros.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Facial recognition works better on white people because, mathematically, they provide more information in real world camera use cases.
Darker skin reflects less light and dark contrast is much more difficult for cameras to capture unless you have significantly higher end equipment.
bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I think it would be funny to normalize wearing bloc in order to retain privacy. It’s why some people might wear accessories they normally don’t wear, such as beanies and sunglasses at protests, even if they aren’t in full bloc, covering hair and eyes (in addition to a surgical mask) can make it really hard to doxx someone.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A company called Clearview AI broke that unwritten rule and developed a powerful facial recognition system using billions of images scraped from social media. Primarily, Clearview sells its product to law enforcement. Clearview has also explored a pair of smart glasses that would run its facial recognition technology. The company signed a contract with the U.S. Air Force on a related study.
Just another reason to not post all your images to social media. Share with family/friends who care but thats it.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Right?! That is all it takes to save your privacy is just not having social media but noone is willing to do that.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The main concern I have is unavoidably having my picture taken. Say I go to a family gathering, of course they will take my picture if it’s a big event. They then will probably share it everywhere. I can’t reasonably say “don’t post this picture on the internet” they probably will.
xavier666@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Do not share the image in a private Facebook group. Don’t post it on popular direct messaging services.
The only way (which I still don’t trust), some privacy-preserving E2E encrypted file storage server or (which I trust) via your own Matrix server.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 month ago
private Facebook group
Does such a thing actually exist? Seems that “private” and “Facebook” really shouldn’t be in the same sentence together.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I remember this happening with google glasses as well
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ahh, Glassholes
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Time to get myself a scramble suit.
xodoh74984@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Surely the original “someone” is Meta. Good to have a redundant system I guess /s
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 month ago
This headline would have carried a ton more weight if it wasn’t so extremely click-baity.
The ends do not justify the means?
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What does the article say? Its asking to sign up.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This has nothing to do with smart glasses, and everything to do with surveillance capitalism. You could do the same thing with a smartphone, or any camera + computer. All this does is highlight how everyones most sensitive data has been aggregated by numerous corporations and is available to anyone who will pay for it. There was a time when Capitalism used to equate itself as the “free” and privacy preserving antithesis to Soviet style communist surveillance, yet no KGB agent ever had access to a system with 1/100th the surveillance capabilities that 21st century capitalism now sells freely for profit.
vzq@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean sort of.
It does mean that walking around with smart glasses will have people potentially reacting to you like you are waving a recording smartphone in their face.
Which is not great for product adoption, if you get my drift.
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Soon smartglasses will look like regular glasses though. Miniaturisation isn’t about to stop.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pretty much no phone is directed at everyone else’s face all the time, that alone is the huge difference. It’s the differences between someone using their phone and someone actively holding it upright to record the crowd. Surveillance cameras might be out there too but they aren’t sighted by everyone (different by country, some even have to deleted after 24h, unless there was a crime).
People quickly would tell you to stop recoding, if you’d hold up your phone all the time, even in situations where you’re closer to each other, like in public transport.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Im sure you could find a usb c camera that could easily be obscured or pinned to a lapel or otherwise disguised for cheaper than the price of a pair of smart glasses, or even just wear your phone on a lanyard around your neck with the screen facing your chest. People might think its weird but noone is going to second guess it unless your phone is in your hands actively pointing at them.