CJOct 2, 2024
Joseph Cox
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action https://www.404media.co/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers/
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers

The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home address.

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Oct 2, 2024 at 1:34pmWeb
Show threadSteve HerseyOct 2, 2024
@josephcox
Time for dazzle-camouflage makeup to become highly fashionable!
Show threadCovidiocracyOct 2, 2024
@josephcox @n1xnx
Show threadJenniferOct 2, 2024
@josephcox this is just so wrong.
Show threadJesper LundOct 2, 2024
@josephcox Something similar was developed for Google Glass in 2013 https://www.kqed.org/news/121348/no-stranger-in-the-night-facial-recognition-comes-to-google-glass
No Stranger in the Night: Facial Recognition Comes to Google Glass

New apps, not Google-approved, can scan a face and produce the personal profile that goes with it.

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Show threadCybarbieOct 2, 2024
@josephcox University start-up founded by 'Hot Chicks On Campus' creeper does it again.
Show threadMark T. TomczakOct 2, 2024

@josephcox There was a lot of pushback against having this feature in Glass.

I'll be interested to see if the pushback happens again.

Show threadAdrian SanabriaOct 2, 2024

@josephcox I've got a pair of Meta glasses and I've done some testing/research with PimEyes.

This is a slick setup, but totally unnecessary for casual use - with the glasses and a smartphone, this whole process would take someone less than five minutes to do manually on a single person.

  • take a photo with your glasses (2 seconds)
  • import from the glasses to your phone (10 seconds)
  • upload it to Pimeyes (5-10 seconds)
  • wait for Pimeyes results to come back (~10-20 seconds).
  • a few minutes to review the results (scraping name, phone numbers, email addresses, social media presence, etc)

    • As a demonstration on how this could be done en masse, it's chilling, but let's not forget that any stalker or creep can do it without any special technical skills right now.

    Show threadAdrian SanabriaOct 2, 2024
    @josephcox Also, I totally agree that the Meta glasses are an important ingredient in this troubling recipe - after using them for nearly a year, only two people have spotted them for what they are on my face, and that's only because they already own them, or are interested in buying a pair. It's possible to take photographs or videos without drawing any attention whatsoever.
    Show threadSlyenceOct 2, 2024
    @sawaba @josephcox this will be a lot more "interesting" when it can work in ~realtime and overlay names and other tidbits on the person
    Show threadAdrian SanabriaOct 2, 2024
    @Slyence @josephcox the new Meta AR glasses would be able to do that https://youtu.be/mpKKcqWnTus?si=fqag-df3Dxr0CCuJ
    Exclusive: We tried Meta's AR glasses with Mark Zuckerberg

    YouTube
    Show threadlegraLeGraOct 3, 2024
    @josephcox @Catawu what could possibly go wrong