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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

The sad thing is, facial recognition glasses would be really useful to people like me with prosopagnosia (face blindness), but I would only want them if the processing is done locally on device.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

As with most bleeding edge technology, all the danger comes from capitalism, and not the technology itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Surveillance society is a bad idea, period.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

It would be also really useful to have a database of oil company executives and other shitty people that aren't easy to recognize but worth refusing service etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Not sure if the trade offs are worth it. It means making up a database of all people. Maybe it could work if your friends and family agree to be in your local database, but not worth it if everyone needs to be in a massive database.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey! Me too! Was your prosopagnosia home grown or was your brain also hit by a truck?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Developmental, I'm also autistic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Heh, also me too, though the autism is unrelated to the brain injury