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[-] gramxi@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago

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

[-] fen@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

google, show me this guy's balls

[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

data-laughing

Awhhhwhah mysides

You have a little bit of poop on your balls

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

“The purpose of building this tool is not for misuse, and we are not releasing it,”

Bet the cia already either stole it from them or is already done reverse engineering it

Or they already had something like this for years now

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or they already had something like this for years now

that one, besides maybe the specific use of smart glasses

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

The US military already has this I'm sure. Every protest I've been to in the past few years has a drone pointed at the crowds that I'm sure is correlating data hoovered from all the US tech companies to identify thousands of people in real time.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Or they covertly financed its creation.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Etiquette. Remember, once upon a time, when it was considered rude to use your cell phone in public? Or when it was rude to even have it on in a place like a theater or a library? And then, almost overnight, they decided to make it as difficult as they possibly could to let people even exist without being glued to their telephone? This will go the same way. We'll shun these spyglass people as we once did the Bluetooth headphone assholes, and in a year or two the declining rate of profit will mean the spyglasses will be mandatory. They'll have to start colonizing more and more aspects of our lives, so we're not allowed to order food without our glasses automatically uploading a photograph to Instagram or some bullshit.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

We're not allowed to order food without our glasses automatically uploading a photograph to Instagram or some bullshit.

If that's not already a Black Mirror episode - it needs to be.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

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

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

That's really where I figured this headline was going and it just got way worse.

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago
[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 25 points 2 months ago

I think these were derived using old facial rec tech. Newer stuff defeats the awesome makeup of the cyberpunk future.

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago
[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 13 points 2 months ago

I am wrong! There is hope comrades

https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle

It appears there are newer looks (some of which are featured in the image above) which worked in early 2023.

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

There's always a good ole' covid face mask, sunglasses and a hat too, I would think, no?

I also just read that there are "IR reflective sunglasses" that do this:

[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 5 points 2 months ago

While I go about in public similarly to this because I just hate tracking, in certain situations or places obscuring your face with a mask may be illegal.

Also neat sunnies. For a while I've wanted to make a necklace with IR LEDs to just blast out cameras. Never considered reflective stuff for privacy. Obviously this makes you highly visible on cameras, but it's a great tool for privacy from machines and mass surveillance.

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

in certain situations or places obscuring your face with a mask may be illegal.

True, but AFAIK that only applies to a few counties (counties? is that what they're called?) in USA that are either full of anti-vaxx shitstains or just hate the Palestine protesters.

I could be wrong but that's the only time I've heard that confirmed.

[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 2 points 2 months ago

the usa is an astonishing minority of legal jurisdictions in the world

[-] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Where are you referring to? You should be wearing a mask for Covid anyway.

[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 0 points 2 months ago

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/respiratory-surveillance-20240928.pdf pretty low levels rn mortality in normal ranges. In urban centers you probably should, but that's also true in a world without sars-2.

[-] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why do you trust the state line on Covid? I am too tired of constantly fighting minimization as a medically vulnerable person to have energy to argue this point much farther, but I have a critical eye on the same institutions that went against the then-known science and claimed that children weren’t affected by it, also claiming for years that it spread via water droplets and fomites (not aerosols)…etcetera etcetera. The science is and has been very, very clear on mortality, comorbidity, the nature of the virus and the means of prevention — means of prevention we have decided not to follow and have not followed for years, while a highly novel virus which we know to mutate rapidly to evade immunity was not eliminated. I am not interested in what state-provided graphs have to say when every western state has done all in their power to prevent reporting on or having anything to do with the virus.

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

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

[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago
[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

Everything they warned us about the social credit system in China? It’s going to be welcomed with open arms here. It’ll also be called Social Credit but people would still think it’s a great idea.

a-guy

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

I have a feeling it'll be called the Freedom Points™ system or something and be managed by 3 unaccountable private companies that have major leaks every 6 months

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

USA already has it, it is called Credit Score.

[-] macerated_baby_presidents@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.
  1. 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:
  1. 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:
[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Babe wake up new torment nexus dropped

chomsky-yes-honey

[-] Ivysaur@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

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.

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