You described me, and I still find those glasses creepy. It’s so much cheaper, easier, and less ethically fraught to just say “oh hey man how are you doing!” and fake it for a minute. Or tell them you’re having a brain fart and keep wanting to call them [random name] even though you KNOW that’s not it. Or, god forbid, just be upfront with people and tell them you’re face blind AF and struggle with placing faces to people outside context.

I don't think violating peoples' privacy and paying big tech to extend their mass surveillance network so you can avoid looking awkward to them for a second carries the weight you seem to think it does

Oh yeah, that's a good reason to aid the expansion of global surveillance. Let's all be complicit with the police state because we can't acknowledge our social anxieties with a bit of honesty.

So one should just sacrifice everyone elses safety and privacy because you're bad a recognizing faces? I get that it can be helpful, but you are literally uploading strangers faces and likeness to Meta's servers without their consent. It's creepy and predatory.

that's a perfect argument for trying to justify total and complete invasion of privacy on the streets

As someone like that, the key is to be affable, apologize, and ask how you know each other. It's not a big deal, most people aren't offended

Yep!

And as cameras get smaller, pretty soon any glasses will be suspect, meaning that those that need vision correction without being able to wear contacts for whatever reason will also end up lumped in with the creeps.

This is like Batesian mimickry but stupid.

This sounds like a bigger underlying problem that can be addressed with a long term solution that does not leave you reliant on a second fragile, expensive battery-powered device with planned obsolescence and social stigma as likely risks.

Man, some of ya really need to learn how to socialize