Students Add Facial Recognition to Meta Smart Glasses to Identify Strangers in Real-Time

[iMac The Knife]

Speaking of privacy, I wish all states would adopt two party consent laws when it comes to recording video/voice and taking photos. I can't stand it when people record me, even by accident, be it at the gym or elsewhere. I don't want to be in your photos or videos, period. And to be fair, I make sure no one else is in any photos or videos that I take. This is why I always report people recording themselves at the gym for Insta or whatever. A. you look like a creepy moron doing this. B. the gym is a place to workout, not take 50 videos of yourself 'working out' to send to your 13 followers on Insta. C. It is against the rules to record videos or take photos at my gym, as it should be.

 

[mattopotamus]

That is what Meta is trying to do. You can see that with the recently released video of their AR glasses. There is a lot of tech and battery for them to completely look like normal glasses, but you can see that is their goal.

We are going to be like that episode of black mirror, nosedive, sooner than we think.

 

[VulchR]

It can be creepy yes. But also very useful especially for blind ppl. They are able to buy groceries and do things without relying on others. People should just chill a bit

Such devices already exist (Orcam MyEye for example).

 

[VulchR]

Speaking of privacy, I wish all states would adopt two party consent laws when it comes to recording video/voice and taking photos. I can't stand it when people record me, even by accident, be it at the gym or elsewhere. I don't want to be in your photos or videos, period. And to be fair, I make sure no one else is in any photos or videos that I take. This is why I always report people recording themselves at the gym for Insta or whatever. A. you look like a creepy moron doing this. B. the gym is a place to workout, not take 50 videos of yourself 'working out' to send to your 13 followers on Insta. C. It is against the rules to record videos or take photos at my gym, as it should be.

I understand about the gym, but that is a private place. It is not reasonable to expect privacy in a public place, so if you are out in public people can legally take pictures of you. As a hobbyist photographer I do think it is courteous to ask people's permission before taking any pictures, insofar as possible, but sometimes that simply cannot be done (e.g., taking pictures of buildings with crowds in the foreground).

Anyway there should be a noticeable recording status light on any device that takes audio or video recordings. In the old days simply holding a camera was enough, but these days the devices are smaller and not so obvious.

 

[raptorini]

Remember way back, when there was a word in the dictionary called “privacy”. Yep, those were the good ol’ days when a person could sit on a bench with an iPhone and look up anything on the internet.

our brave new world gets uglier as we lose control of ourselves. It’s not the “good uses” of the tech that worry me, it’s how easy it is to use it badly.

 

[Digital Dude]

Foreign government intelligence agencies are gonna love this. 🙄

 

[jarman92]

Yes there is a long way to go, but no tech just starts out cheap and affordable, it takes time and development.

I mean sure, that’s obvious. The same can be said for flying cars and general AI. But showing off a prototype doesn’t mean we’re remotely close to any of this, nor does it mean that Apple doesn’t have something as good or better than Orion in its labs.

 

[victorvictoria]

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.

You, as a private citizen, being able to use facial recognition to identify strangers. That's police/secret agent work. Not for perverts who want to find out who that pretty girl on the bus is and where she lives.

 

[laptech]

There is no way those guys are going to keep the code to themselves. They will sell it to others. Just like the guy that developed an AI program that removes peoples clothes to produce a nude image. He said he was never going to release the code and oh look what happened, a number of people have got it and use it for just that purpose and post the results on a well known image/video website for digital artists.

oh and for sure this will be used by the security services and the police. Security services and police forces around the world would use this feature, agents and officers wearing these glasses, scanning peoples faces to see if they are wanted by the security services or the police, have outstanding warrants, that sort of thing.

Also, those same services could employ random people to wear them for the purposes of looking for wanted people. The selected people could be walking anywhere and everywhere whilst the glasses are scanning the faces of everyone, then searching on a database to see if the faces match match the wanted database. It could then alert the glass wearer that they have just scanned a wanted person and to call the police.

 

[The Clark]

Did any of you read the whole article and watch the video? Meta is not doing the doxxing. The only thing the Meta glasses are doing is providing a video feed.

The automation script is written with an LLM...to automate the reverse searching and catalog it. All of the data is being scraped from readily available databases online (PimEyes and other PeopleFinder-type sites).

Yes, the Meta glasses are an invasion of privacy, but you can do the same thing with an iPhone, or any smartphone with a good camera and decent internet connection.

You can do the same thing, but these glasses would make it 10 times more accessible, especially for those who aren't super proficient with Google.

 

[Numbah One]

So they implemented what we saw in Iron Man - people in the wearer's immediate field of view are identified and background information is made available to the wearer. In the movie, a little pop-up window next to the person or item identified is displayed with the data.

 

[Frantisekj]

Creepy just got creepier.

Welcome to China

 

[tennisproha]

I think I'm going to go back to wearing a face mask and probably sunglasses in public.

good, we would finally eradicate covid if everyone did that for a month

 

[delsoul]

We should also see the story on Macrumors how there's the sunglasses that also aid in blocking facial recognition and identification by cameras. They're certainly not cheap, but they work well and stop people, like these two Harvard students, from spying on everyone.

 

[drrich2]

We are going to be like that episode of black mirror, nosedive, sooner than we think.

Yes, in Season 3, now on Netflix. This is worth explaining. Imagine a future where a social media platform similar to Facebook is so omnipresent that people can quickly 'Like' or negatively rate people, even strangers, they met in day-to-day life. Kinda like tipping service workers you favor, etc... Now imagine this popularity rating is publicly available and can impact your eligibility to obtain housing in an elitist neighborhood as you claim the socioeconomic ladder, but one bad day could seemingly wreck your life. What if you go viral in a bad way?

Glasses that routinely scan, identity and access info. on people you encounter could make this scenario more plausible (although most of us carry smart phones with locator capability and cellular connection to 'cyberspace' anyway, so...

China has a social credit system - Wikipedia Page. From that "...a national credit rating and blacklist being developed by the government of China.[1]The social credit initiative calls for the establishment of a record system so that businesses, individuals and government institutions can be tracked and evaluated for trustworthiness.[2][3]"

Many years ago in the U.S., I heard somebody's motto, "The future is now!" They seemed to think that was a good thing.

In the old days simply holding a camera was enough, but these days the devices are smaller and not so obvious.

Plus with moveable rear LCD viewfinders, I don't have to hold some cameras to my face. I can look down at it like I'm fiddling with it, so it doesn't look like I'm taking your photo.

And have you seen some of the extreme zooms on some of these fairly compact 'point and shoot' models? You might not even see me taking your closeup.

Wonder how good small directional microphones for consumers have gotten, and whether you could Bluetooth it to your smart phone and ear buds. Long as you're checking out the hottie while she chats with her buds, can you listen in?

If I were someone people wanted, this thread would make me nervous.

 

[joejoe2000]

This is the unavoidable future.

 

[neuropsychguy]

You, as a private citizen, being able to use facial recognition to identify strangers. That's police/secret agent work. Not for perverts who want to find out who that pretty girl on the bus is and where she lives.

Thank you for clarifying.

 

[blehhh]

There is no way those guys are going to keep the code to themselves. They will sell it to others. Just like the guy that developed an AI program that removes peoples clothes to produce a nude image. He said he was never going to release the code and oh look what happened, a number of people have got it and use it for just that purpose and post the results on a well known image/video website for digital artists.

oh and for sure this will be used by the security services and the police. Security services and police forces around the world would use this feature, agents and officers wearing these glasses, scanning peoples faces to see if they are wanted by the security services or the police, have outstanding warrants, that sort of thing.

Also, those same services could employ random people to wear them for the purposes of looking for wanted people. The selected people could be walking anywhere and everywhere whilst the glasses are scanning the faces of everyone, then searching on a database to see if the faces match match the wanted database. It could then alert the glass wearer that they have just scanned a wanted person and to call the police.

what would they even sell, what they did is not impressive. anyone with $500 (cost of meta raybans and pimeyes) can remake this in a day.

and that is already being done by police in the UK, but they are massive trucks with large cameras and sensors.

 

[dvanwinkle]

So, they neither modified Ray-Ban Meta glasses, nor did they add anything to the glasses. Just streaming to Instagram and using another program to do the scanning and work. Great! Thanks for not misleading anything with this article…

 

[i make movies]

So, they neither modified Ray-Ban Meta glasses, nor did they add anything to the glasses. Just streaming to Instagram and using another program to do the scanning and work. Great! Thanks for not misleading anything with this article…

This is exactly what I was saying, but half the commenters already jumped to the “Meta = Bad” conclusion because that is their default.

 

[laptech]

So, they neither modified Ray-Ban Meta glasses, nor did they add anything to the glasses. Just streaming to Instagram and using another program to do the scanning and work. Great! Thanks for not misleading anything with this article…

According to MR post it states the following:

Two students at Harvard University modified a set of Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to add AI-based facial recognition technology

The modified Meta Glasses are able to use the camera to scan a stranger's face to get their name

If you are of the opinion the glasses were never modified, you need to inform MR editors then that their post has major inaccuracies in it, has major misinformation (glasses not modified according to you) and is also extremely misleading (glasses not modified according to you)

 

[i make movies]

According to MR post it states the following:





If you are of the opinion the glasses were never modified, you need to inform MR editors then that their post has major inaccuracies in it, has major misinformation (glasses not modified according to you) and is also extremely misleading (glasses not modified according to you)

College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time

Privacy will always be a major concern with smart glasses.

www.theverge.com

They did not “hack” the Meta Glasses. Any device capable of doing an Instagram Live can do this. The glasses are just much much easier to conceal.

 

[laptech]

College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time

Privacy will always be a major concern with smart glasses.

www.theverge.com

They did not “hack” the Meta Glasses. Any device capable of doing an Instagram Live can do this. The glasses are just much much easier to conceal.

Look, all I did was point out in MR's post where they state the glasses were/had been modified. I do not have proof or evidence of this thus I cannot got to MR telling them their post has inaccurate information but if there are members here who do know for a fact the glasses were not modified or 'hacked' then they need to inform MR editors to get them to amend their post.