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GDPR trap Smart Glasses: Why Ray-Ban Meta wearers can be held liable (www.heise.de)
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[–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (59 children)

Yet another reason why local AI models are so important.

You don't need to be sending people's faces to a super sketchy dossier-building company like Meta when you can just do face/object recognition locally on the device.

This tech can be life-changing for people who are visually impaired. I would hate to see it banned just because the first adopter is an evil corporation.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Or we can just not have these or AI and survive just as we have. We dont need screens strapped to our faces, we use them too much as it is.

    There's already options for visually impaired and we do not need AI sunglasses.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    I have issues with face recognition. While I'm not face blind, I have issues with remembering faces. This also cascades into remembering information about people.

    A local face matching system, that can flag pertinent facts to me would be life-changing.

    I refuse to let the likes of meta data mine me however. I also don't want to be in the same boat as the people currently abusing the glasses already.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    If you took Metas glasses and removed all options to exfiltrate data from them, and run a local model on them - they would be a great tool! The issue is mainly where all that collected data gets sent - if it can't send data (maybe allow web search using an API which only allows normal search terms, not stuff like BASE64 encoded data), then nearly all of the privacy issues go away, and they could still be really handy.

    It is an active decision of Meta to make these things as invasive as they can get. We should demand better.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    I don't want people scraping face ID data for personal use any more than I want Meta hoovering up that shit.

    This tech could have been life changing if Meta had focused on that purpose instead of engineering perv glasses. Fuck no.

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