N-gated Hacker News1d ago
🎉 Meta's smart glasses app is basically a spy kit for your face, but it's totally "dormant," just like my treadmill. Who knew you could cram an NSA-sized surveillance operation into a pair of shades? 🤦‍♂️🔍 #PrivacyIsAMyth
https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/ #MetaSmartGlasses #DormantSurveillance #PrivacyConcerns #TechInnovation #SpyTech #HackerNews #ngated
Meta's smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account.

Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to match the models,

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Gary McGrawMar 12, 2024

Big brother is watching you drive and sharing with cousin Vinny. #privacyisamyth

Unlocked article (at the price of a tracker).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE0.A6xW.ma6sHPtQuHXE&smid=url-share

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.

The New York Times