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submitted 2 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

I suffer from prosopagnosia (face blindness), so facial recognition would be legitimately useful for me.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately it's unlikely for this to be implemented in a privacy-respecting way. Arguably, even if it never "phones home", it's always going to be a more risky option—e.g. police can seize the glasses and see who you've seen, whereas they can't seize your brain and see what faces you've seen. You might be fine with that risk, but will everyone you ever meet be fine with it?

[-] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cool, run a local tool. No harm in that.

But ifyou snitch on my location yo Facebook at all times, I'm gonna break the glasses and whatever you put them on, no remorse.

You do not get to surveil and put people at risk like that, your disability can get fucked if that's your accommodatin.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

Reasonably speaking, you have no way of knowing if smart glasses are local or remote processing just by looking at them.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

reasonably speaking, there are no smartglasses today that are capable of doing that locally, and even if there would, that does not guarantee in any way that it keeps the data locally. youre a walking surveillance camera, and like it or not, if people don't like that, that's their decision.

I'm surprised teslas and other such surveillance trucks are not vandalized more.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

The first assault on a cyborg using assistive glasses, that processed locally, happened in 2012 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/countering-mcdonald-s-denial-cyborg-posts-new-photo-alleged-assault-flna895484

Meta glasses process in the cloud because that's what meta wants, the technology is more than there for local processing.

[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Omg I have some kind of name-forgetfulness. Takes me fucking ages to learn a name. This would be so handy.

[-] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

see? these glasses don't have to be for creepy men!

[-] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago

Slightly useful to you, extremely harmful for everyone else?

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Sorry, no can do.

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