Submitted 5 days ago by zaxvenz@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/meta-reportedly-eyeing-super-sensing-tech-for-smart-glasses/
Meta is reportedly developing what it calls a “super sensing” type of facial recognition technology to its smart glasses lineup. A new report from The Information said that Meta is developing software for the glasses that has the ability to recognize people by name and keep better track of what users are doing throughout the day.
The company originally planned to include similar technology in its first wave of smart glasses, but abandoned that effort due to privacy concerns.
The guy in the file photo looks like such an absolute dork
Somehow they look better on him.
They look awful.
Those are just prototypes, but yes I agree.
we need to get any smart glasses and similar banned from public spaces in europe that is capable of any kind of imaging
I just want to know how I can be opted out of being recognized. This has privacy nightmare written all over it
Good thing I kept all those Covid masks…
It may be time to outfit a ballcap with super bright infrared LEDs. It’s probably past that point already, sadly.
But here in 2025 privacy is no longer a concern!
I’m at the point where I’m going to say that we need to prohibit facial recognition devices for companies and peiplemin general, and mostly for government too.
This shit is going too far. I know I don’t have a right to privacy when I’m outsidey home but I will very fucking well have a tight to not have my privacy abused to hell and back when I’m outside. No, Facebook, you don’t get to facially recognize me on the street and then follow my location everywhere, monitor what I’m doing while Im not even on your fucking website.
The only place where I remotely think it might be allowed in a very limited fashion is by governments and them only after OK from a judge and even them only in a very limited set of circumstances, like a missing child or a known > violent criminal who’s on the run. Couple this with harsh penalties for police officers who would break those rules. This, of course, only works in well established democracies where police is very well controlled, else it’s just abuse again as well.
Beyond that tiny scope, fuck your facial recognition, and fuuuuuuccckkk Facebook and fuck mark Zuckerberg with an umbrella.
LOL those things are hilarious to look at.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I’ll be honest, shit like this would be pretty handy—if it didn’t also enable more dystopian shit. I’d be happy if it could just remind me of someone’s name and how I know them. Maybe remind me of small talk details. But they aren’t going to stop there…
JollyG@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A tool that keeps track of people in your life and gives you small talk cues seems dystopian in its self. Relying on that you would just further isolate yourself from others.
Thinking about it, I am pretty sure I would immediately despise anyone who used this tool on me, even apart from the fact that they would be putting me into a meta database without my consent. I would despise people who use this tool for the same reason I despise people who crudely implement the strategies from “How to win friends and influence people”. Their interactions are insincere and manipulative.
calabast@lemm.ee 4 days ago
But people have different abilities and some of us are REALLY bad at remembering names…uh…Greg.
Zorque@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What does dystopia mean to you? This is akin to having sticky notes to remember things, just in a more compact convenient application. Having social lubricant is also not really a bad thing. If anything it can help people keep from isolating themselves from others.
It can be abused… but then again so can sticky notes. The problem isn’t the technology, it’s the application. Keeping track of friends and colleagues and having simple prompts to encourage interaction is good, keeping databases of dissenters and subjugation tools not so good.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I see your point but also I just genuinely don’t have a mind for that shit. Even my own close friends and family, it never pops into my head to ask about that vacation they just got back from or what their kids are up to. I rely on social cues front others, mainly my wife, to sort of kick start my brain.
I just started a new job. I can’t remember who said they were into fishing and who didn’t, and now it’s anxiety inducing to try to figure out who is who. Or they ask me a friendly question Andee I get caught up answering and when I’m done I forget to ask it back to them (because frequently asking someone about their weekend or kids or whatever is a friends way of getting to share your own life with them, but my brain doesn’t think that way).
I get what you’re saying. It could absolutely be used for performative interactions but for some of us people drift away because we aren’t good at being curious about them or remembering details like that. And also, I have to sit through awkward lunches at work where no one really knows what to talk about or ask about because outside of work we are completely alien to one another.
And it’s fine. It wouldn’t be worth the damage it does. I have left behind all personally identifiable social media for the same reason. But I do hate how social anxiety and ADHD makes friendship so fleeting.
Guidy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Some of us are face blind and this could be helpful.
No fucking way I’d trust meta not to exploit it though, so this is a hard pass.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
As always, the ancient Romans had that.
A nomenclator referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later, the scope was expanded to include names of people in any social context and also other socially important information about them.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You could then be replaced by an android that just uses this info to interact with those people, instead of yourself. You’d never have to meet ppl again. 5 stars 😄