The answer to this hypothetical question is obvious. I wouldn’t count on FB or Zuck “or their puppet masters” to do anything moral or ethically good for people. Power, greed, control...dominate. Like he said very early on “f* em.” That’s what Zuck thinks of people.
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Facebook Weighing Up Legality of Facial Recognition in Upcoming Smart Glasses
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Why do people assume the government always has good intentions? My guess is the government would love this type of technology for their own use.
We’re in a very dangerous era where the government and media are working together. You need look no further than how the media lionized Andrew Quomo when some NY’ers were shouting from the rooftops that he was literally killing thousands with his policy, or how they failed to cover his sexual harassment allegations... and convinced the masses that he did a great job while Kemp and Desantis were vilified even though they saved their states by protecting the elderly and the economy by opening it months earlier.
No thank you. What we need is smaller government. If Facebook’s approach to AR is creepy, the market will decide by not adopting it.
Hmm...so it sounds like we won't be wearing masks pretty soon. The Facebook has spoken. Legal issues are irrelevant. Can't sell this if it doesn't work while wearing a mask.
I agree with you, the problem is what happens in the future when the technology makes it impossible to determine which glasses are smart and which are not, somebody could make millions of dollars if they invent a device that you might wear on a shirt lapel, a device that obscures a digital camera and its ability to video or take a single shot picture of you.
These devices do exist in the wild in a few different forms but not in a convenient way if you want to ward off a digital camera.
If you have one friend or relative linked to you, the fake name does little to keep you from being found on Facebook.
The current standard is that we have no expectation of privacy in public but our pictures are not allowed in ads or videos are not allowed on TV shows without our permission, the standard being that a corporation is not allowed to make money on our public pictures, doesn't Facebook make money whenever someone visits its website, should the law not be updated, so that if you don't want your picture on anyone's page, FB has to blur it or delete the picture since they are making money off of your public photos.
There are devices that do this in a limited fashion but they are not practical, invent this and you will become a millionaire, you think a million is cool, perhaps you will garner a billion dollar valuation, the anti-Mark Zuckerberg can take inspiration from the real Mark Zuckerberg, perhaps a young person is using the pandemic time to work on it in their garage right now.
Exactly, will the laws ever catch up, why is it against the law for a traditional company to profit off your picture but FB can make billions off your unauthorized public photos.
And if you are someone that does not care about your privacy, what if FB had to pay you a penny or a nickel or a fraction of a penny whenever someone clicked on your photos, either ones you upload or ones your relatives uploaded or tagged you or whatever.
How much would Facebook be worth if they had to get your express permission to put your photos on their site, if they could not identify said person in a picture, they had to blur that person out, if you gave out permission to be unblurred, FB had to give you a micropayment, whatever they decide, maybe they pay more if have more followers, maybe a new company comes along that offers popular and unpopular people even more and FB now has to increase their micropayments to compete.
If you instituted regulations in this manner, you would probably not have to worry so much about monopolies.
You have to ask yourself why does Facebook even want to do this? It does not seem to provide a useful tool for users, but its main purpose is to collect information for Facebook. As such, this is DOA. Unlike a browser of phone where you can grant permission to collect data or not, the object in someone's field of vision has no abiliity to opt in or opt out becasue the deivce is on someone else's face. It is beyond my ability to comprehend how any Facebook employees can think this is a good idea or that it can succeed in the marketplace, even if they give them away.
To the end-user; the benefit of this is minimal.
For the most part, you could get the same identification of acquaintances by simple mutual exchange of device identifiers.
Basically; exchanging (or obtaining) data from a person should require their prior consent in the real world or online. The process of giving that consent effectively means there is no benefit to recognition (unless some form of biometric verification or Facebook)
I can guarantee you that this won’t/doesn’t stop the big evil.
Easy way to kill this off; as soon as there’s a couple of crimes witnessed by wearers this will be outlawed as discriminatory or something (based on current trends and events).
For the most part, you could get the same identification of acquaintances by simple mutual exchange of device identifiers.
Basically; exchanging (or obtaining) data from a person should require their prior consent in the real world or online. The process of giving that consent effectively means there is no benefit to recognition (unless some form of biometric verification or Facebook)
I can guarantee you that this won’t/doesn’t stop the big evil.
Easy way to kill this off; as soon as there’s a couple of crimes witnessed by wearers this will be outlawed as discriminatory or something (based on current trends and events).
Hook, line, and sinker...
If this was any other company, like Apple,i would say, put out these glasses. but a social network business only knows how to do it one way
Facebook will promise they won’t sell a history of everywhere you have been seen by someone wearing their “spy wear” glasses. They will be happy to rent or lease that information to the highest bidder (maybe even barter for it) but they promise they won’t sell it.
Facial recognition needs to be an OPT-IN feature where your photo cannot be put in the database of a private company for facial recognition unless the owner of said face clearly and explicitly opts into allowing their photo to be used in that manner. I have never had a Facebook account but there is a really good chance someone at sometime has identified me in a photo they they posted on Facebook (or my photo could have been scraped from my employers website). I have never given Facebook permission to use my photo for facial recognition and if they in any way monetize taking people’s photos from users wearing these glasses they need to be slapped with a class action lawsuit for using photos for commercial purposes without a signed release form.
You may want to post your photo on various social media accounts under various names in various cities so when this “feature” is implemented, it won’t know for sure who your face really belongs to.
Oh they can use facial recognition...they just need to let everyone that glasses see sign a Terms&Agreement to have his face processed by Facebook database AI.
I seriously hope some hack group, hack the death out of FB database so they software will stop working for weeks and all the data is deleted forcing people to move on from this toxic "legal citizen" .
I seriously hope some hack group, hack the death out of FB database so they software will stop working for weeks and all the data is deleted forcing people to move on from this toxic "legal citizen" .
I don't know man, these new computer AI is pretty smart to fool. Maybe its reaching human intelligence. It might use FaceID like technology where it stores a face print.
I just did a test on Google which is free to use and searched for:
"movie where bus needs to be stopped"
The first answer was: Speed
🤯🤯🤬
Yea Facebook buying out the oculus basically rendered the oculus useless for most of society. Facebook needs to keep buying out other tech in order to remain relevant. Apple is due to release their AR glasses in a few years which promise to be a flawless extension of the phone. So I think I’ll hold out for those. Facebook has already admitted Apple beat them recently in their quest to dominate advertising space by bypassing private security on the phones. Facebook is on the way out legit.
