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I suffer from prosopagnosia (face blindness), so facial recognition would be legitimately useful for me.
Unfortunately it's unlikely for this to be implemented in a privacy-respecting way. Arguably, even if it never "phones home", it's always going to be a more risky option—e.g. police can seize the glasses and see who you've seen, whereas they can't seize your brain and see what faces you've seen. You might be fine with that risk, but will everyone you ever meet be fine with it?
There's no privacy in public. End of story. There's no privacy to respect in a public space.
You don't just wear glasses in public. You wear them in private settings too.
ok, this isn't a private setting though. If she had attacked him for filming her in private i'd %1000 support her. I dont support ppl being violent because they feel like it.
We're not talking about the OP. We're talking about someone suggesting smart glasses as an accessibility tool for facial recognition.
Cool, run a local tool. No harm in that.
But ifyou snitch on my location yo Facebook at all times, I'm gonna break the glasses and whatever you put them on, no remorse.
You do not get to surveil and put people at risk like that, your disability can get fucked if that's your accommodatin.
Reasonably speaking, you have no way of knowing if smart glasses are local or remote processing just by looking at them.
reasonably speaking, there are no smartglasses today that are capable of doing that locally, and even if there would, that does not guarantee in any way that it keeps the data locally. youre a walking surveillance camera, and like it or not, if people don't like that, that's their decision.
I'm surprised teslas and other such surveillance trucks are not vandalized more.
Omg I have some kind of name-forgetfulness. Takes me fucking ages to learn a name. This would be so handy.
see? these glasses don't have to be for creepy men!
Slightly useful to you, extremely harmful for everyone else?
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Sorry, no can do.