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Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by toast0 »

filup wrote: post #34

I can't think of one single practical use case for this that would benefit my life, because, right behind the glasses I have my very own locally available facial recognition built in.

I'm great at recognizing faces, but I'm pretty bad at remembering who they are. If this was offline only and the UX was reasonable, I might consider asking people I know if I can take their picture so my glasses can help me remember who they are. Of course, that's a pretty awkward conversation, so there's always the strategy of half introductions, hoping the people you half introduced fully introduce themselves and then you remember who they are. :P

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by ChicagoDave »

evilduck wrote: post #48
hallway_monitor wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At what point does civil disobedience become justified? Expected even? Also let's be clear - this is not violence, not assault, it is simple destruction of property.

I don't think you could plausibly do this and only catch a property crime charge. If you're caught, forcefully removing worn objects from another person will almost certainly catch you a misdemeanor battery charge in most US jurisdictions. I'm no lawyer and things vary by location, but clothing is generally considered an extension of the person and usually touching their worn objects constitutes physical contact with…

If it’s a woman slapping them off a pervert and accidentally stepping on them, 100% walks no charges.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by optymizer »

aanet wrote: post #120

I'd like to wear an EXACT OPPOSITE of this... Namely, if someone is using Facebook's AI-powered glasses in my vicinity, I want to get a notification (of some sort) so that I can avoid those persons

Nearby Glasses on Play Store does this

(not affiliated, I did a simple search before writing an app myself)

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by NobodyNada »

noman-land wrote: post #124
caturopath wrote: post #89

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Like the poster, I'm faceblind. It isn't the worst thing: I'm not voice blind, height blind, age blind, hairstyle blind, gender blind, features associated with race and ethnicity blind, attractiveness blind, affect blind, context blind, etc., so I'm mostly good at figuring out who someone is. Within one encounter with a bunch of people, I try to note what someone is wearing. Every once in a while I don't recognize so…

This is fascinating. So you know that you've met someone before. You know things about them. But you don't recognize them? What does this mean? You don't remember their name? You don't know why or how you know them?

(Not the parent, but I'm faceblind as well)

The interaction described goes like this:

"Hi there, I'm ABC, nice to meet you, what's your name"

"...Huh? I'm XYZ. We've met before."

"Oh right...sorry, I promise I remember you! We knew each other from there, and we've worked on this and that together, and etc. etc. etc. I'm just terrible with faces, I'm so sorry!"

It's not "you know things about them without recognizing them"; it's "you don't recognize them at first, it gets awkward, and so you recite facts about them prove that you didn't forget who they were"

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by kstrauser »

Findecanor wrote: post #122
Cider9986 wrote: post #85

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I am highly opposed to these glasses, but there's nothing you can do about it in public besides swearing at these people and not being friends with them.

Sometimes I have wished I had a handheld EMP gun for such situations. What are they going to do? It would be harmless to living beings and leave no trace. Their device would simply stop working suddenly.

1. I am sympathetic to the notion, in fictional settings.

2. Real world pacemakers, deep brain stimulators, infusion pumps, cochlear implants, etc. may be less tolerant of it.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by ryandrake »

Brusco_RF wrote: post #132
salawat wrote: post #117

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And the answer is monetization. We can't just solve a problem. It has to have a business model built around it. No exceptions.

Feel free to solve a problem and release it for free. People do that every day.

OR just sell me a widget. I don't want a relationship with the software developer or device manufacturer. I just want to buy something and forget about you.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by fwip »

thereisnospork wrote: post #93
convolvatron wrote: post #57

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you're implying there is some kind of symmetry here, that facial recognition will empower individuals in a way to counteract the power given to governments and corporations. I should try to compile my own database of everyone's location? I fail to see how it helps me in any way

You as an individual? Probably not, but you could lobby your local government to, for instance, require any such dataset taken from information in the public be subject to the freedom of information act.

Victims of stalking would likely be greatly harmed by such a rule.
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