Still much less effective than spray paint liberally applied.
Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
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#12I appreciate your intent, But... This does nothing to alleviate my privacy concerns, as a bystander, about someone rudely pointing a recording camera at me. The only thing that alleviates these concerns about "smart" glasses wearers recording video, is not having "smart" glasses wearers. I.e., not having people rudely walking around with cameras strapped to their faces recording everyone and everything around them. I…
it's an ass-backwards approach to privacy isn't it?
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#13There is a strange ingredient in the ether right now - confounding privacy with censorship. If I can see something, and hear it, then blurring it is not "privacy", it's censorship. I fully expected this to be about solutions for empowering the user to ensure that her audio and visual experiences weren't being exfiltrated to a third-party, not that they were being censored before even getting to her.
Can you expound on the difference between privacy and censorship?
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#14This reminds me of the Quantum Thief series of novels by Hannu Rajaniemi and its concept of Gevulot. It is a system that allows people, to set the desired level of privacy in every social encounter, to share memories and to access the exomemory. People can obscure themselves from being
seen by others
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#15I think this is interesting research. I could see BLE beacons that announce what level of sharing one is comfortable with. Not unlike systems used at conferences to denote if someone can take their picture and what they can do with it.
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#16At some point we’ll probably have smart glasses that actively block or scramble cameras, so random people can’t record you just walking down the street.
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#17I'm curious how do you handle case when camera sees multiple people and you detect consent.
If I understand correctly how this works consent can come from camera operator and be attributed to recorded person
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#18I appreciate your intent, But... This does nothing to alleviate my privacy concerns, as a bystander, about someone rudely pointing a recording camera at me. The only thing that alleviates these concerns about "smart" glasses wearers recording video, is not having "smart" glasses wearers. I.e., not having people rudely walking around with cameras strapped to their faces recording everyone and everything around them. I…
I agree with all you said, but I don't believe there is any way you could protect yourself from being recorded.
The only way for this to work are legal regulations. But those can be easily dismissed as not possible to implement. So this is good PoC to show what is possible and way to discover how this could function. Without such implementation I don't believe you are able to convince anybody to start working on such regulations.
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#19I think mainstream adoption of smart glasses could be slowed more by privacy concerns than by hardware limitations. Remember Google Glass? While the hardware keeps improving, I want to make sure we're also addressing the software side.
Your solution does absolutely nothing to address privacy concerns with "glassholes".
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#20> Real-time processing – 720p 30fps on laptop Have you tried running this on a phone or standalone smart glasses? 30fps is horrible performance on a laptop given that it's probably 10-100x more powerful than the target device. And what laptop? Based on your screenshot, I'm guessing you're using a new Apple Silicon mac which is practically a supercomputer compared to smart glasses.
With proper implementation, on-device processing on a smartphone is feasible. On-glasses processing would be challenging, especially with battery constraints.
The 720p 30fps figure is from a PoC implementation, so there is still significant room for improvement. And yes, the demo is on an Apple Silicon M2.