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'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

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Harvard students used Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to demonstrate how easily facial recognition technology can reveal personal details like names and addresses, raising serious privacy concerns.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with Facebook or Rayban. This can be done with a webcam and a laptop from 2006.

The entire problem here is PimEyes and the fact that it's legal to collect and build a biometrics database in the first place.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought the comment was about "giving PimEyes training data via interacting with Facebook".

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

PimEyes doesn't use images or data from Facebook or other social media.

It's a click bait article that's been regurgitating through the less informed part of the tech news world because it has Meta in its title and it sounds scary.

Actually good articles covering it would point out that the flaw is entirely a legislative one, where America and a large chunk of the world simply have zero privacy rights or protections.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

I know this title is misleading. Sorry if I made a mistake, I just know that some facial recognition systems (including the one used in our cities) use data from multiple public sources including social media, so assumed this one was the same.