How many industry experts in ethics, privacy, violence (domestic, stalking and others), activists and supporters of basic human rights warned about this *exact* bloody thing?
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 www.404media.co/someone-put-...
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...
This will leave a body count, and nothing will be done to protect people. Big tech has become actively immoral and regulators are asleep at the switch. There are no adults in the room.
When the MIT “cyborgs” did this in the 80s it was whimsy. At scale it’s a privacy nightmare. And it’s here.
Dang - I felt I could sleep at nights knowing that only the CIA (etc.) had this kind of tech (bazinga) #InvasiveTechnology
"We're still struggling to stop the abuse of AirTag stalking. Now let's take the physical requirements of tags off of abusers"...
and I am still amazed how anyone can even pretend to be surprised by this. It was so bloody obvious that this exactly happens. Like the AirTag mayem. Apple seriously pretends not to have thought about abusive use of that technology and comes up with rather lame warning pop-up messages as mitigation