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Students Add Facial Recognition to Meta Smart Glasses to Identify Strangers in Real-Time
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Maybe this is something they could address
I predict the rise of the facade era. It'll work like this.
I (if I weren't old enough to be in a position to not care much about this cluster) set up a Facebook account in my name. I follow, like and post content basically indicating I'm a humanitarian bleeding heart who loves both dogs and cats, aches for popular special interest causes and have an inoffensive plain vanilla sense of humor and am a workaholic who somehow still manages to have a well-rounded life and plenty of time for family and volunteering. Done to associate my name with all that the popular culture lauds (that I don't have a personal moral objection to supporting).
You know, like a personal statement trying to get in to a selective university.
Then I set up another Facebook post under a false name, where I like what I really like, say what I really think, etc...
Then someone walks up to me in public and says something based on my online profile and I look at them like 'Whaaaa....?!?!?'
I (if I weren't old enough to be in a position to not care much about this cluster) set up a Facebook account in my name. I follow, like and post content basically indicating I'm a humanitarian bleeding heart who loves both dogs and cats, aches for popular special interest causes and have an inoffensive plain vanilla sense of humor and am a workaholic who somehow still manages to have a well-rounded life and plenty of time for family and volunteering. Done to associate my name with all that the popular culture lauds (that I don't have a personal moral objection to supporting).
You know, like a personal statement trying to get in to a selective university.
Then I set up another Facebook post under a false name, where I like what I really like, say what I really think, etc...
Then someone walks up to me in public and says something based on my online profile and I look at them like 'Whaaaa....?!?!?'
647j does not apply to this any more than an automobile manufacture is liable for a death from DUI.It's only a matter of time before this is a class action brought against Meta, and deservedly so:
Invasion of Privacy in California - Penal Code 647(j) PC
With more security cameras activated than ever before and modern technology making it possible for virtually anyone to snap a photo or capture video at any time, it's easy to feel as though personal privacy is a thing of the past. But in California, privacy is still a legal protection...www.keglawyers.com
But it will absolutely be used in far great numbers by more creepy people than blind people. This is the problem.
The utility of being able to identify people quickly and easily would be a boon for the disabled, for safety against strangers, for general social efficiency, etc... insane to me that researchers are doomsday warning and companies are covering their tracks of accountability. This is revolutionary. Own it, make it public, let people use it.
Hard to imagine the future at some point you can really talk to any guys or girls on the street ...
The iPhone's facial recognization works pretty well despite a mask.
You made me think of something people will react differently to, but it could cause trouble. There are publicly accessible sex offender registries so you can find out if one is living near you. Ideally this gives those who wish it the option to be aware of convicted child molesters in their area and thus potential predators. I imagine remote histories of statutory rape (where the perp. didn't know and wouldn't reasonably have known), people false accused and such could be in there, too.
Now imagine any of these people, when they go out in public, and a bunch of fellow citizens wearing these glasses suddenly see 'Warning: Sex Offender' flash over them. Yeah, it sounds like a nice warning, but it could create false alarm and lead to harassment and assault.
Some people may say 'Oh, some child molester who should've gotten life in prison got beat up, big whoop,' but not only is vigilante bullying a road we probably don't want to go down, but what if the person instead got tricked into unknowingly committing statutory rape several years ago, and somebody looking for trouble decides the 'perv.' would make a convenient punching bag to pick a fight with?
I'm not a 'soft on crime' type. I do think making it easy to target people for hate and persecution (for a variety of reasons) might be a very slippery slope.
Wait until? Two words: Snowden. Prism. It’s already happening. They figured out a much more effective way to monitor us: don’t cram it down our throats 1984 style, but rather have us “voluntarily” adopt all the technology that they can already monitor in real time.
Who believes the Meta glasses don’t already do this? It just doesn’t let the user know. In other words, Facebook knows who you met with yesterday, even if you don’t.
Showing me names of people I meet is an amazing use case that I would pay good money for. Tracking who I am meeting with without their consent to either sell the data or use it for targeted advertising towards me or (especially) them, is creepy af and something I will fight like the plague.
That’s the dilemma. I have zero faith that Meta is the company that will solve that dilemma with the user’s experience as top priority. They already proved they don’t want my money, they want my data.
Apple is not perfect, but of all the bad companies to trust, they are the least worst.
Creepy. Though might be good one day to help all the ivf kids not become romantically entangled with a sibling of the same donor.
This is exactly my take on this. If you do that, you are a weirdo. Try to keep a normal conversation going with someone who is holding up his phone and recording while you speak. But products like this is going to normalize doing exactly that. Hate to bring up 1984, but what many who didn’t actually read it to the end don’t understand is that the danger isn’t being watched and controlled, the danger is embracing and accepting, even loving it.
From another classic: The only way to win is not to play.
And exactly how much information should it bring up to let you know that someone you meet is”compatible”, or “dangerous”? Their criminal records? Their tax papers? A summary of their favourite instagram feeds?
Everyone has a line, and I’m betting you do too.
It probably doesn't have much to do with any advanced technology. It's just some talented students who did a project after hours. There are probably glasses that are much more powerful than this. Here we have neatly connected blocks - a camera that just so happens to be in the glasses, social media and some other maybe. The same could be achieved with a phone camera, but it wouldn't be as subtle. If governments have access to programs like Pegasus, just think about what technology companies have access to, which, unlike NSO Group, don't have to break anything, they have the source code.
Just like when Apple takes an already existing tech and revolutionizes the world by making it accessible to the majority of people (if not through price then usability), the dangers in everything AI does not lie in what can be achieved, but how. A feature can definitely be inconsequential if it’s confined to experts who know how to use it, but world-changingly dangerous if it’s in the hand of everybody. Like, say, guns…
The politics of this needs to revolve around how we are using the tech, not how the tech works.
Creepy, scary and end of privacy as we know it.
1) Governments need to apply a law where a green light comes on whenever a consumer device is being used to record in public. Some will find a way to hack it / tap over it etc.. but the majority of people will comply and you get a hefty fine if sporting a modified device.
2) Teach your kids about the pitfalls that await them and their family/friends if they continue to publish their lives online. Do they really need to post 100 photos of their summer on Instagram.
1) Governments need to apply a law where a green light comes on whenever a consumer device is being used to record in public. Some will find a way to hack it / tap over it etc.. but the majority of people will comply and you get a hefty fine if sporting a modified device.
2) Teach your kids about the pitfalls that await them and their family/friends if they continue to publish their lives online. Do they really need to post 100 photos of their summer on Instagram.
What is “this”? Wearing glasses? Creating an AI tool? Creating glasses with a camera in them? Existing? Being able to run facial recognition software?
I’m not sure what you think should be against the law.
Yes there is a long way to go, but no tech just starts out cheap and affordable, it takes time and development.
If Apple releases a pair of glasses like these with integrated display (It’s enough to go through web contents or mirror iPhone; no need to watch movies) I would buy right away. When Apple says that you can capture precious moments with your children through AVP, in kid’s memories, parent’s face is covered 90%. But a pair of glasses like these wouldn’t make odd situations.