The feature could arrive as soon as this year.
  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    We have already gotten a taste of what a future with facial recognition on Meta glasses may look like. In 2024, two Harvard students developed a project that allows Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses wearers to identify people’s faces and use public databases to find names, addresses, phone numbers, and relatives.

    Yep, and since this is Meta, you may rest assured that they will be harvesting all that facial recognition data along with the wearer’s detailed location data in order to sell a subscription service to ICE, DHS, and law enforcement in general.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    34·
    3 days ago

    I work as a customer facing public servant. These things are a potential nightmare for my colleagues and I.

        • frunch@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 days ago

          Nobody should be making these glasses in the first place. It’s an unbelievable intrusion on everyone’s privacy. Since Zuck seems to think so little of everyone’s privacy, why doesn’t he have a full-time livestream broadcasting all the time so we can all see what he’s doing? I hate this fucking timeline

      • 0x0@infosec.pub
        5·
        2 days ago

        Many cameras today have ir-filters built in making this pretty useless.

        Before those filters became common you could blind most security cameras with an ir flashlight, not so much today.

        If glasshole googles don’t have that yet it’s just a matter of time.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        2 days ago

        Oh hey thanks, I’ve just recently realized I need a pair of backup glasses and I’d forgotten Zenni existed. I also remembered I have a prescription from a few years ago and my eyesight has been stable for the last decade AND I found a pair in exactly my style from literally the front page. Might as well get the id-guard ones even though facial recognition isn’t being pushed here… yet. IR blocking seems semi-useful even without that given that the day orb spews IR and UV at us all day long.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I suggest we also add a baseball bat, moving at around 25 mph, directly to the nose bridge area of the device.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      2 days ago

      Not so much as the people around them. They’re the real targets.

      “Smartglasses” already reports everything about their owners users. With that feature, they’ll report on everyone around them too.

  • Widdershins@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 days ago

    Do high-intensity UV LEDs still wash out digital cameras or did the technology get better? (by better I mean worse)

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Either that or IR still blows out the range of a lot of cheaper/older cameras, or at least would have much of your face rendered as basically a white or black blob/bloom, so long as the emmiter is at the right angle/distance/strength relative to the camera.

      But… there are a hell of a lot of different cameras, some of them do basically negate or otherwise filter or adjust for this… no clue how generally prevalent those kinds of cameras are these days, if the meta face stealer goggles will have them or not.

    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      All the more reason for you to be afraid of this. Your own glasses aren’t going to be seeing your face, it’s everyone else’s.

  • WhatSaid@lem.ugh.im
    2·
    2 days ago

    You know how as a general rule, you don’t punch someone wearing glasses? Here’s the acception.

  • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    That’s the thing with internet corporations now, the only new ways they have to make money is AI investors or selling more of your data. It’s always some new infringement from these guys.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 days ago

    The djinn is out of the bottle. We will be a total surveillance society. You won’t have a moment that isn’t watched.