College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time
Privacy will always be a major concern with smart glasses.
validating my decision of never uploading or allowing anyone to have anything with my face on it
yeah three letter agencies and their adjacent private sector vendors like clearview already have this and have scraped every government database and social media site they could get their hands on. If you haven't been a literal ghost your whole life this can probably detect you. This still makes me want to try
google, show me this guy's balls
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You have a little bit of poop on your balls
“The purpose of building this tool is not for misuse, and we are not releasing it,”
Bet the
already either stole it from them or is already done reverse engineering itOr they already had something like this for years now
Or they already had something like this for years now
that one, besides maybe the specific use of smart glasses
The US military already has this I'm sure. Every protest I've been to in the past few years has a drone pointed at the crowds that I'm sure is correlating data hoovered from all the US tech companies to identify thousands of people in real time.
Or they covertly financed its creation.
The final paragraphs
For its part, Meta cautions users against being glassholes in its privacy policy for the Ray-Bans. It urges users to “respect people’s preferences” and to clearly gesture or use voice controls when capturing video, livestreaming, or taking photos. However, the reality is people may also choose not to follow wearable etiquette, regardless of what Meta says. The Verge reached out for comment. Meta responded to our email by block quoting its terms of service, which reiterate the same guidance.
This is a sobering reminder of how smart glasses can be abused, but there are some steps people can take to protect themselves. In their document, Nguyen and Ardafiyo list reverse face search and people search databases that allow you to opt out. Even so, keep in mind it’s nigh impossible to fully delete your online presence — you can only make your information less available.
Etiquette. Remember, once upon a time, when it was considered rude to use your cell phone in public? Or when it was rude to even have it on in a place like a theater or a library? And then, almost overnight, they decided to make it as difficult as they possibly could to let people even exist without being glued to their telephone? This will go the same way. We'll shun these spyglass people as we once did the Bluetooth headphone assholes, and in a year or two the declining rate of profit will mean the spyglasses will be mandatory. They'll have to start colonizing more and more aspects of our lives, so we're not allowed to order food without our glasses automatically uploading a photograph to Instagram or some bullshit.
We're not allowed to order food without our glasses automatically uploading a photograph to Instagram or some bullshit.
If that's not already a Black Mirror episode - it needs to be.
Why didn't they just cheat on your exams like a normal person
That's really where I figured this headline was going and it just got way worse.
I hate the future and anyone wearing these should have them snatched off their face and stomped.
This is horrifying...
Everything they warned us about the social credit system in China? It’s going to be welcomed with open arms here. It’ll also be called Social Credit but people would still think it’s a great idea.
lol another PimEyes frontend. None of this tech is new but it's gotten a lot easier for the amateur. The technically neat thing is LLMs to do the brute work of parsing the scraped whitepages or whatever. Here's the students' writeup
How to Remove Your Information
Fortunately, it is possible to erase yourself from data sources like Pimeyes and FastPeopleSearch. We are outlining the steps below so that you and those you care about can protect themselves.
- Removal from Reverse Face Search Engines:
The major, most accurate reverse face search engines, Pimeyes and Facecheck.id, offer free services to remove yourself.
- Removal from People Search Engines
Most people don’t realize that from just a name, one can often identify the person’s home address, phone number, and relatives’ names. We collected the opt out links to major people search engines below:
- Preventing Identity Theft from SSN data dump leaks
Most of the damage that can be done with an SSN are financial. The main way to protect yourself is adding 2FA to important logins and freezing your credit below:
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Covid is still spreading so wearing masks both protects you and others from the spread of debilitating and deadly disease and as an added bonus is a very cheap and easy way to make sure this particular brand of bullshit never happens to you. I cannot think of a simpler solution.
