College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time | The demo highlights the dark side of AR glasses.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy

21 Comments

  1. Police have been using this tech since at least the London Olympics in 2012 this is only going to increase. Facial recognition is still bad for non white faces though.

  2. Masks are back on the menu, boys. I actually wouldn’t mind wearing a fashionable mask permanently. I know it is forbidden in various places (and countries), but that is an effective way to counter this type of tech when it becomes an actual widespread issue.

    On the other hand there is also a question whether that is an actual problem at all or if the society just isn’t used to the idea of this level of hyperconnectivity. So you know the name and other public information about whoever you are looking at. How is that an actual problem? Do we have a right to anonymity and if so, then is the problem the tech that pieces together existing public information or is it the fact of that such information exists in public in the first place? We can’t fight the idea of machine-reading and machine-recognition, it is as inevitable as sunset. Machines need this as a baseline for their autonomous functions which are transitioning from sci-fi to day-to-day life as we speak.

  3. The intended purpose is the dark side? Looking up a coworker who you don’t remember or someone from school was always in the tech demo, even when it was still a Black Mirror idea.

  4. The smart glasses are only the photo capture device. All of the backend processing is done by software written by the post authors on the phone.

  5. Sure it’s more discreet with the glasses, but a recording phone in your front shirt pocket can do the same

  6. Leverkaas2516 on

    The headline writer doesn’t know what “dox” is. Not even close.

    But anyway, preventing this is why everyone should disable tagging, or better yet, not use facebook at all.

  7. I can’t wait to get these and take high resolution photos of people in public, then go home and masterbate furiously to them.

    Almost had this 10 years ago with Google Glass but people were worried about the above scenario.

  8. wallstreet-butts on

    “The dark side of AR glasses” let’s see:
    – Not AR
    – Nothing that couldn’t be done by a phone you’re pretending to look at

  9. SgathTriallair on

    They don’t need to use smart glasses, you can add cameras to any regular glasses. This is tech that has been around for many years so it has already proliferated.