• @Azureumbra
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    102 hours ago

    It’s wild to me that this hasn’t become the news of the day.

    If I were RayBan I would jump ship right now before brand image is tanked. Why would you trust anyone wearing RayBans after this?

    • @[email protected]
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      You can do this with any camera, including the one in all the phones out there. The only thing specific to the glasses is that it’s more convenient and inconspicuous to be wearing it on your face.

      Might as well have put the iPhone in the title for more clickbait. Anyone dedicated enough can make or buy tons of different kinds of wearables that could do the same.

      The key issue is that such a database exists and is so easily searchable.

  • Jeena
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    133 hours ago

    Why do you need the glasses, can’t you take the picture with your phone?

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      91 hour ago

      Because people get suspicious when somebody is taking pictures of every stranger they come across, but people looking at passersby while wearing glasses is normal.

    • @Jesusaurus
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      41 hour ago

      The glasses are just less obvious than me pointing my phone at you and snapping a picture

    • @[email protected]
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      21 hour ago

      It isn’t as obvious as shoving phone infront to take photos, whereas glasses are more incognito

  • @ikidd
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    Meta could build a set of glasses that lets me view Pluto, washes the dishes, and gives me a loving blowjob, and I wouldn’t let them get within 10m of me.

  • Dr. Wesker
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    The company behind Threads, which we’ve allowed to now infest the fediverse with little evident opposition. Cheers y’all.

  • @[email protected]
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    -24 hours ago

    First of all bullshit. Try me. A modicum of effort towards privacy would protect you from this. Seems like a healthy way to bring attention to the bigger issue at play here.

    Also - awesome. I have terrible propsagnosia. It’s crippling socially and especially for me in the workplace and and my scientific career (there’s a decent amount of networking and ass kissing in science, and if you can’t keep track of people at all it’s tough to play along). I’d love something like this - congrats to the devs.

    • @NeoNachtwaechter
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      21 hour ago

      First of all bullshit. Try me. A modicum of effort towards privacy would protect you from this.

      Unfortunately this does not count.

      It does not matter if they have 99% or 99.99% of the sheepfolk in their pocket. It would not even matter if it were only 90%. It is still everybody. They got everybody. They won.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 hours ago

      You can have tools for recognition and not identification. Identification likely includes information that someone did not intend to share with you.

  • @[email protected]
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    -95 hours ago

    This is not a technology issue. Never reveal you real name, address and phone number on the internet.

    • CrimeDad
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      Never post your resume or sign up for LinkedIn in the course of a job search? Never use a dating site? Never buy a domain? Never pay property taxes? Never go to court? I see your point, but never revealing your info online isn’t realistic or even a choice for most people.

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t know about buying domains, court or taxes. Those should be private and they probably are in my country.

        But LinkedIn and dating sites are definitely a scam.

        I am a huge privacy fanatic, so it is my goal that no one should ever be required to upload pictures of themselves on the internet or reveal their addresses or phone numbers. People have gotten way too complacent in handing over their private information, and that needs to change.

        The fact that having privacy is unrealistic is truly bothersome.