There's no need to do something like matching against someone last seen in Tokyo when you're in Oslo, and so on; so we can extremely quickly get those 2.8 billion down to something that easily is matched in real-time. By the time you'd have to do anything close to computational hard work you could be down to less than 100 people; and with the processing happening on the client device.
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Facebook Weighing Up Legality of Facial Recognition in Upcoming Smart Glasses
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Don’t worry you don’t have to use it to be a part of it.
Several benefits even for people in one’s address book:
- Remind one of someone’s name in case one has forgotten (especially for those with face blindness).
- Remind one of last phone call or meeting date (again just in case one has forgotten).
- Remind one of the person’s spouse’s name, bf name, gf name, kids name, etc.
- Log that you saw them so you can ”remember” for your next conversation.
It would depend on how they worked. AR glasses that did local recognition and did not record video without a specific action and indicator (like that on the Snap Spectacles) would be fine with me. Something that streamed the video feed to Google or Facebook? Not going to happen for me.
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It should be legal to punch somebody wearing these, then stomp the glasses to powder.
Or just permanently ban off-device facial recognition. Either way.
Seriously, the technology is simply too dangerous. It's not a big issue if it's in something like a secure enclave where it can never leave a device, but we all know that's not what F*c*book is going to do with it.
Or just permanently ban off-device facial recognition. Either way.
Seriously, the technology is simply too dangerous. It's not a big issue if it's in something like a secure enclave where it can never leave a device, but we all know that's not what F*c*book is going to do with it.
A friend of mine was a senior manager on a team interviewing a candidate for a position developing CG related applications. The interview was in the conference room that held the team’s library (wonder if those still exist).
My friend ask a question about how the candidate would implement some function and the candidate replied can use use a reference book. My friend said sure. To which the candidate replied: “It is the third problem in Graphics Gems Volume 4 on the shelf behind you. I would just copy it from there.”
They hired the candidate.
I'll just leave this quote right here
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
[Dr Ian Makcolm: Jurassic Park]
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
[Dr Ian Makcolm: Jurassic Park]
I mean I’m a pro at wearing masks at this point. If Facebook rolls this out I guess it’s masks from now on. Utter invasion of privacy.
It’s much worse than that evil goal. They will be capturing massive data on everyone around you. This will be streaming the location, what people are wearing, what people are doing, who they are associating with, what they are saying, etc., on the wearer AND the people around them.
Facebook needs to drop this project immediately. I can just imagine Facebook adding eye tracking technology as well -- tracking every item we gaze at, how long we gaze at it, the level of pupil dilation when we view it, etc... They'd love all that info, and it would be disastrous to all of us.
Does it bother you if it is on-device with a local database only? I do not have much of an issue with the recognition itself, only with any service creating a geo tagged log of every where I was. This would especially be an issue if it can work with the data from all of these so that I get no only the data from my device, but from yours and everyone else’s.
How? Stalkers do not need to face recognition, they know who they are tracking. What does this enable that was not available before?
Maybe you have to buy and wear them to get access to the opt-out button?
You would of course have to be extra tracked and scanned for that to work, but by using the opt-out button you are strongly indicating a desire for them to not use that data in any non-essential ways.
This spells trouble and has all the ingredients of authoritative control.
Can you imagine if this went ahead, here is what I envision happening.
You are wearing the glasses and a guy walks past you, the glasses perform facial recognition and discovers he is a member of the Republican Party and thus you suddenly get bombarded with message about how you should start a conversation with him, that he is absolutely amazing even though it turns out he is a mass murderer!
Meanwhile you walks past a woman and the glasses once again perform facial recognition and is labelled as Democrat so the glasses tell you she is the very embodiment of pure evil despite the fact she is a decent human being!
Then when you get home you are bombarded with adverts in your computer browser for products that happen to be sold by every shop you walked past.
You constantly get pestered for friend requests by every weirdo who is wearing the glasses because...you know...Facebook!
Your every contact with another person is recorded and catalogued then sold to some developer/government agency/ Trump!
I see nothing but bad news here!
Can you imagine if this went ahead, here is what I envision happening.
You are wearing the glasses and a guy walks past you, the glasses perform facial recognition and discovers he is a member of the Republican Party and thus you suddenly get bombarded with message about how you should start a conversation with him, that he is absolutely amazing even though it turns out he is a mass murderer!
Meanwhile you walks past a woman and the glasses once again perform facial recognition and is labelled as Democrat so the glasses tell you she is the very embodiment of pure evil despite the fact she is a decent human being!
Then when you get home you are bombarded with adverts in your computer browser for products that happen to be sold by every shop you walked past.
You constantly get pestered for friend requests by every weirdo who is wearing the glasses because...you know...Facebook!
Your every contact with another person is recorded and catalogued then sold to some developer/government agency/ Trump!
I see nothing but bad news here!
That absolutely would not be used by every weirdo ever to spy on any attractive woman/guy they meet in the street to stalk them would it!
That sadly would be used to stalk every person by every weirdo!
It would be used by corrupt cops and anyone who hates the idea of privacy.
Don't ignore the people who will use this to stalk and harm people such as that abusive ex who just can not accept that they got dunped and how dare the ex change and hide their social media profile!Don't ignore us that already have forgotten everything about you, and can't even place or name you if we meet outside of the usual setting where we meet; we need this.
Don't be a paranoid loon; I wrote that I'm working on something, I didn't write that I'm working on a security and privacy nightmare to fanservice stalkers.
You obviously didn’t read my post or what I was responding to.
On-device recognition of people already in your contacts list is what we were talking about.
But thanks for the FUD.
Don't be silly! It is a well known part of Neuroscience!
It is called use it or lose it!
It is a part of a larger frame work called elasticity!
Sorry but you are wrong and I am right.