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Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation (tech.yahoo.com)

submitted 5 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database

… because of course we aren’t. We already have one and it’s AMAZING.

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[+] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

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[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago*

No no no, it's not a central database at all. It's distributed globally across many geographic locales, nothing central about it. Lots of redundancies too, it's available everywhere all of the time. :S

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[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Or rather, "we" aren't, but palantir is.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

Face tagging has been a feature since the early days. Facebook by itself is a central database of face data, you just need to plug into it. I don't know how anyone could think otherwise, especially after CA