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Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway (futurism.com)
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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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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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?

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  • [+] -7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    There's no privacy in public. End of story. There's no privacy to respect in a public space.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    You don't just wear glasses in public. You wear them in private settings too.

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  • [–] -3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    ok, this isn't a private setting though. If she had attacked him for filming her in private i'd %1000 support her. I dont support ppl being violent because they feel like it.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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