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.
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.
This article focuses to much on the glasses/face recognition tech while the actual problem is the database with of personal information and its public accessibility.
I haven't used or uploaded any photos of myself to Facebook in probably about 10 years. So I would be interested to know what it can find on me as I highly suspect I don't look the same as I did 10 years ago
I wonder how much use is there in photos of you where you haven't been tagged (in addition to being bad quality). When it comes to better-quality, tagged ones - you can just ask people not to do so.
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.
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?
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.
PimEyes doesn't use images or data from Facebook or other social media.
It's a click bait article that's been regurgitating through the less informed part of the tech news world because it has Meta in its title and it sounds scary.
I know this title is misleading. Sorry if I made a mistake, I just know that some facial recognition systems (including the one used in our cities) use data from multiple public sources including social media, so assumed this one was the same.