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.

validating my decision of never uploading or allowing anyone to have anything with my face on it

google, show me this guy's 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 it

Or they already had something like this for years now

I'll just leave this here

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.

Why didn't they just cheat on your exams like a normal person

I hate the future and anyone wearing these should have them snatched off their face and stomped.

This is horrifying...

Babe wake up new torment nexus dropped

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.

1. Removal from Reverse Face Search Engines:
   The major, most accurate reverse face search engines, Pimeyes and Facecheck.id, offer free services to remove yourself.

• Pimeyes
• Facecheck ID

2. 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:

• FastPeopleSearch
• CheckThem
• Instant Checkmate
• Extensive list compiled by the New York Times

3. 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:

• Freezing Your Credit (by Vox)