Meta glasses extract personal info in real time

https://newatlas.com/technology/meta-rayban-facial-recognition-glasses/

by geox • 2 years ago

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Terr_4• 2 years ago

Optimistic take: This will take off and then everyone will collectively realize the privacy problem and take steps against it.

Pessimistic take: People will react against this, but only against the most-visible and least-critical part, the glasses themselves, rather than the rest of the iceberg.

Very Pessimistic take: This will take off and then everyone will want to use it and the Panopticon will be normalized.

talldayo4• 2 years ago

Very Pessimistic take: This will take off and then everyone will want to use it and the Panopticon will be normalized.

I cannot honestly discern how this is any different from the status-quo of surveillance enforced by Google and Apple for commercial and governmental applications.

Terr_4• 2 years ago

how this is any different from the status-quo

If it's normalized (or perhaps hypernormalized [0]) then being an "unscannable" [1] outlier may mean surprise and distrust from bespectacled passerby, and you can't even spend too long in a store before some nervous manager asks you to leave, and other sorts of markedly-worse things.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/adam-curtiss-...

[1] Idiocracy reference, albeit with barcode tattoos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81_NcN7yANM

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724310

paul79862• 2 years ago

Used my Ray Ban (Metas) since last October almost daily. Im just using it to capture my life when needed without the need to have my phone. Also, asking the glasses for the time.

Half of those I talk to when wearing them have an issue with glasses with camera and the other half don't care with some being interested in getting their own.

ahazred8ta• 2 years ago

Someone remarked that we're probably the last generation to live before cameras become so small you can't see them.

JoeAltmaier• 2 years ago

I thought that was the primary use case. Meet someone, know something about them.

jerryspringster• 2 years ago

It's things like this that make me glad I'm an anti social arsehole.

In the future are people going to look at me strangely because I can't be identified by their AI eye implants? will I be excluded from businesses? public transport?

Meta glasses extract personal info in real time

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