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Harvard students turn Meta's smart glasses into a surveillance nightmare [video]
- thomassmith65 2y agoCopying and pasting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315639 We already have: – Crypto to enable black markets for stolen/leaked personal data – BitTorrent to make huge downloads (ie: of leaked data) feasible – Facial Recognition to attach a name to a face (ie: using leaked data) – portable drives capable of storing 1TB+ (ie: of leaked data) If AR goggles are successful, it could be at least as bad a blow to privacy as the success of social media was. They are the last remaining puzzle piece. The reputation of whichever company leads this market will take a hit (obviously to the extent that everyone comes to see AR goggles as a nuisance).
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- gnabgib 2y agoRelated Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds (28 points, 1 day ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724957 Students Add Face Recognition to Meta's Glasses to Dox Strangers in Real Time (12 points, 1 day ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724310
- tomasmartunas 2y agoWhile The US was asleep, we WhiteBridge.ai developed a 92% accuracy tech solution in Tesonet Hackaton to find a Person's name from simple photo taken with Meta's glasses or Simple Camera, Picture upload and not just a name but also finding everything about this person online using publicly available information...Now it is becoming a solution to manage your Digital reputation or Prepare for a business meeting