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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago

College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time

www.theverge.com

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College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time

www.theverge.com

PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months ago
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Privacy will always be a major concern with smart glasses.
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  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Welp, guess it’s time for IR reflective tattoos to defeat facial recognition

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      *glasses

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      So… Add high-contrast uniquely identifiable markings to yourself?

      Seems counterproductive.

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        Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1105/

      • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        it can work if everyone does it. Unfortunately we can’t even do a boycott on a product properly so no chance for that to happen.

      • Verqix@lemmy.world
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        Full face tattoo and getting multiple people on board might do the trick for however long until additional markers are found for the edge case. I think clown makeup would do better since it varies day to day.

        • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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          10 months ago

          https://wrkr.com/netflix-series-claims-insane-clown-posse-is-secret-society-controlling-global-finance/

      • xenoclast@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, and hard to change.

        These anti mask people are crazy!

        (Please. It’s a joke)

  • That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml
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    This is why I don’t use my real name on the internet, nor do I post selfies.

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    I really wanted these glasses but I don’t think people will be able to reverse engineer them anytime soon to take out the Meta part.

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    10 months ago

    Photo caption: a woman smiling like a maniac,performing for a social media photo. Screenshot of television series Black Mirror, from an episode about social media dystopia

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    simple. ban imaging sensors in the public

    • INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
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      10 months ago

      That’s not simple :P

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    Anyone have a link to the video that’s not behind an authwall?

    https://x.com/AnhPhuNguyen1/status/1840786336992682409

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    Meta glass, not Google glass? What did I miss?

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Correct me if I’m wrong but this isn’t doxing? It’s pulling already public info and not sharing it with the world.

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      Doxing is usually gathering already public info, but I agree if it’s not shared it’s not doxing.

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        I never understood doxxing laws. All the people do is compile publicly available data. How is it illegal in some places?

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          It’s because you’re gathering data to encourage others to use it for nefarious purposes. It’s not just innocently looking up their email or whatever.

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            If it is all publicly available, it should be legal to repackage and release the info. As long as there is no call to action.

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              I’m pretty sure intent is part of the laws that exist. If you’re just collating information, I don’t think there’s an issue. When you’re posting that information in a forum to identify the person and send people to harass them, that’s where you usually cross a line. It isn’t the gathering of information that’s important. It’s the intent to cause harm.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Can the doxxing tech be used to ID law enforcement officers? A lot of them are assholes and bullies knowing their IDs will e protected by state and corporate interests.

    And police in the US are more than eager to use facial recognition and ALPR services to bypass our fourth amendment protections.

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      Take a photo of a cop, upload it to the website, and find out.
      Report back.

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        Bold of you to assume that he would be able to report back after doing that

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      This is kind of the ironic catch of surveillance technology. There’s way less people in positions of power and authority that the tech can be used to surveil. Honestly the bourgeois is better far not advancing it and just using old fashioned violent coercion.

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    I don’t think its a dox unless you prepare a dossier. Just learning someone’s PII isn’t doxing them

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      You are kind of wrong in two ways. First Doxxing is where you reveal someone’s information to the public without there consent. Usually this is done to get members of the public to harass or harm the victim in some way.

      The second part of where you are wrong is the use of the term PII. PII is does not include active surveillance. It is things like your birth date, SSN and records.

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        Your name is PII. Your address is a PII. This attack is getting PII from looking at someone.

        I know what doxing is.

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        Also phone number and address, none of which is being exposed like so, save name and maybe birthdate.

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    For its part, Meta cautions users against being glassholes in its privacy policy

    Lol

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      Only they are allowed to do that!!

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      Glassholes was coined back when Google was working on Google Glass about 10-12y ago and people kept theirs on and recording while in public

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    This tech could easily work with any type of camera too, that’s a lot harder to identify than glasses with a light that turns on when its recording. Hidden cameras on pins, necklaces, clothing, etc.

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      What a world we live in

      I think the biggest concern is how easy it is to do. Not everyone has a CIA surveillance pin.

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        not many people are likely to have one but tiny cameras in various forms are quite cheap. 1000010258

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          I think they even have pen (like, writing pen) cameras that can fit inside a front pocket for pretty cheap.

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      Pretty sure China has this tech everywhere in their country

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    That’s a great school project

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      Leave it to college kids to abuse the system

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        They didn’t release the code, and they did this project to warn us. Thats not abuse.

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    Huh. Who saw this coming besides literally everyone?

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    The sad thing is, facial recognition glasses would be really useful to people like me with prosopagnosia (face blindness), but I would only want them if the processing is done locally on device.

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      Hey! Me too! Was your prosopagnosia home grown or was your brain also hit by a truck?

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        Developmental, I’m also autistic.

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      Not sure if the trade offs are worth it. It means making up a database of all people. Maybe it could work if your friends and family agree to be in your local database, but not worth it if everyone needs to be in a massive database.

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      It would be also really useful to have a database of oil company executives and other shitty people that aren’t easy to recognize but worth refusing service etc.

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      As with most bleeding edge technology, all the danger comes from capitalism, and not the technology itself.

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        Surveillance society is a bad idea, period.

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