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'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

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Harvard students used Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to demonstrate how easily facial recognition technology can reveal personal details like names and addresses, raising serious privacy concerns.

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

Can you tag people if they don't have accounts?

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

Well, I cannot, because I don't have an account there. I guess others can, but I don't know for sure.

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

They have other ways. Cross site tracking etc. People without accounts on the platform itself still have profiles on the business side, which is a decent chunk of how they're making money.

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

Right but without tagging they can't do facial recognition can they.

What I'm saying is that if there's a photograph of me on Facebook and someone tags it and goes ah there's Bob Smith, does that that it's me or is that just a label that says Bob Smith?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thats a good point as far as your visual identity being exposed to other fb users. However, with where facial recognition is at now, they're sure to be able to match that and your identity on their business side with your (IRL) friends location data, cross site tracking and other data to effectively have a db of images of ‘you’. Whether or not they have a business use for it is another matter but not a stretch to see it as a part of the data harvesting and broking landscape, though I’m not sure of the value of images of you to them : perhaps demographic data for adsales. All speculation on my part, and I’m not sure where this would sit with regulation in various places. Just interesting to think about.