One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses
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This company can't be trusted, full stop. They need to be erased from the history books and steps need to be taken to ensure it cannot happen again. Death to all things Meta.
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What's the use case for this? You don't need these glasses to recognize people you already know.
Edit: I mean the use case from the customer perspective.
Edit: I mean the use case from the customer perspective.
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Anyone who thought Meta could be trusted with a product like this was totally delusional, of course they were going to pull shit like this, it's their modus operandi.
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To cash in like Palantir, Clearview and other shady facial recognition/tracking endeavors. What else could it be?
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I'd say to members of Congress "Aren't you already annoyed when people recognize you in public and you want to give away the anonymity of the common man?" but they'd say something about MS13 or Border Security like that wallpapers over the issue.
I don't need to be protected from MS13. I need to be protected from the people I "trust" the most.
I don't need to be protected from MS13. I need to be protected from the people I "trust" the most.
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ubercurmudgeon
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Turns out the real glassholes were the tech billionaires we made along the way.
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F***in' with your cash is the only thing you kids seem to understand. - Larry
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"Social media helped break down the governments of the world and democracy in general, so let's take advantage of that" is a particularly disgusting take.
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I do not accept Meta's terms of service, and hereby exercise my right to opt out of all collection, storage, and processing of my biometric data by their devices and systems.
Suggestions otherwise may be met with an unpleasant response.
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You can curse here, it's ok. See, look:
Meta are fucking cunts.
Shit like this is actually scary. Can we please get some fucking legislation to protect our privacy? This is abso-fucking-lutely insane.
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When Satan makes an offer, one should give the offer serious consideration— even if you’re not entirely sure why the offer is being made.
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Don't worry. Congress will simply pass legislation making it illegal to store politicians or their friends/family/hookers in facial recognition databases.
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Whenever someone says the reporting is 'missleading and dishonest' its almost become synonimous with 'we were caught with our pants down, but don't want to admit it'
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Just as expected from Meta, to be honest. They just can't help themselves from saddling genuinely cool engineering with insidious crap.
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It is explicitly intended to let the creepy guy at the other end of the bar use Meta services to root out personal details about you up to and including a home address and phone number.
edit: a creepy guy doesn't like being called out, I see...
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So users of Meta smart glasses can seamlesly view the deepfake pron they've created for people they know, while talking to them.
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The fact that these people KNOW that they will be pissing people off, but push anyways, is just...so, so very revealing.
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Good riddance. Only governments and security systems should be able to use automatic facial recognition tech. Too dangerous in the hands of the common folk. </s>
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In China, there are smart glasses vendors in academia--so students can use AI enabled smart glasses to cheat on exams. Stalkers of course would have a field day with this too.
There are certain vulnerable populations like say those with Alzheimer's that could benefit from facial recognition....but lets be real, these aren't going to be marketed to that tiny demographic. Every retail customer service rep could use them to give not-personalized greetings like they know who you are (so your Starbucks Barista no longer needs to ask for and misspell your name for an order). Also police-states would greatly benefit and misuse them..but other than that--that is it.
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ReadandShare
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'Secret' facial recognition code built in? Why and who would pay for this 'secret' feature? Law enforcement? Just this one would be an enormous market for Meta!
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Even if Meta insists your device stores all the data, governments of the world are going to SALIVATE over this data and likely propose secret or public laws granting themselves access. Why install surveillance cameras on every street corner when you've got millions of these things all over the world walking around in real time scanning people's identities. I would submit that this even goes beyond 1984's dystopian worldview.
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They're literally cyberglasses produced by a man who invented a platform called FACEbook to rate hotness levels of classmates. Said man also happens to be a duplicitous maniac who would gladly suck up to Hitler if he were necromanced and made president and who has a long and documented history of this kind of hyperinvasive data collection and abuse of privacy (Cambridge Analytica, anyone?). Of course he tried to sneak in facial recognition because of the "dynamic" political environment (read: the authoritarian fascists are in charge and it's now or never if we want to forgiveness-instead-of-permission this Orwellian, anti-human tech into our product). Meta's irredeemable because the rot comes straight from the top and always will.
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This was my thought, no one normal seems to be buying these but a police and military contracts to use for on the spot recognition would be worth a fortune.
Anywhere someone can justify it as “security” would be fair game. Airports, border control, prisons, the creepy usage options are endless. And it’s Meta, it’s not like they have any morals anymore anyway. They’ll use the same argument as has been used on unfettered AI development, “if we don’t do it, someone else will”.
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Well Facebook Marketplace got me to re-install the app. This made me uninstall it again. Mark really can't help himself.
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I fully recognize the nefarious use cases for this, but some people (including myself) have some level of face blindness and find it hard to recognize people we know, especially if seen out of context or in different clothing or hair styles. However, it's definitely not something every user needs.
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There is nothing you can buy or sell on there that is worth the damage you're doing to yourself and the world by enabling this fucking company.
We have any facebook employees on here? Hope you're fucking proud of yourselves, you fucking monsters.
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