Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

fouc

in the future, everyone's glasses will have automatic recording of people. in the future, everyone's automatic recording of people will be fully accessible to all. in the future, everyone's glasses will also be AR glasses, enabling everyone to view everyone else's POV at any time. in the future there will be no privacy, because everyone will be able to watch everyone else.

teunispeters

and how is this distinct from a security camera with OpenCV? (I am curious. Mind, not a field I'm very interested in these days)

tsukikage

We should take a minute to understand that the current lawsuits are pushing, hard, for this. Whether or not Meta also want to do spying thing for their own purposes, we are forcing them to roll this shit out when we declare it's not enough for a user to tell a social media service their age, the social media site needs to be /certain/ and make a big database of their proof. The world that results may be exactly what we want, IDK. It's just be nice if we could decide, collectively, one way or the other, then be deliberate about it.

throwaway2027

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOnQ8CD3v4g Person of Interest (2011)

lapkaaaa

Portable Flock camera here we go

clickety_clack

And people are paying meta for the privilege of putting these on their own faces?

alasr

FB in meat-space: see, for reference, page# 11 of the Meta's patent - https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...

mrweasel

Currently there's a massive, and understandable, backlash against the Meta/Ray-Ban glasses, but I can't understand how it's not absolutely destroying the Ray-Ban brand? Influencers and stores are damaging their brands by selling or advertising the glasses, but Ray-Ban seems to go completely free. I do wonder if we're just moving to shun people wearing glasses with heavy frames in the near future. The glass only seems to appeal to a certain type of people anyway.

some_furry

Every time Meta does something, it makes me yearn for the day they lose that $1.4 Trillion lawsuit and declare bankruptcy.

hn_submit

These patents are completely worthless. These glasses will never become socially acceptable and certainly not when they're coming from Meta, a known privacy thrasher/intruder/molester/rapist/violator.

godwinson__4-8

A lot of comments in here from privileged people complaining about some imagined oppression while ignoring the nature of actual ones. I would love if meta glasses were freely distributed in poor, black and brown communities in the United States where police intimidation and rights violations are routine, and where there is almost no recourse because even when filmed via phone (if you manage it) enough context is missing to allow any litigation to err on the side of taking the word of the police. Not everyone is able to capture these on their phone in the moment, with enough context to make a case. In a world where police are predatory, a camera on your face becomes like a dashcam. Insurance against becoming a victim. Many police are still not required to wear body cams, courts and juries tend to take cops word as veracious evidence. Citizens wearing glasses that record, if evenly distributed, would seem to reflect the surveillance state back at the authorities. If the problem is it's made by Meta, then fine. But it is irritating how much of this no cameras in public discourse seems authored by relatively privileged types who ignore the actual benefits of cameras in public given the power of witness testimony in the courts, and the biased nature in which such testimony is often favored. Imo if you don't have answer for that problem, nor an ability to acknowledge more cameras in public has actually been an equalizer where oppression actually happens, then I have to doubt your sincerity.

bicepjai

What is it with Meta and destroying society in general? Zuck buys all the buildings in the block to have his privacy, but now wants to patent everyone else’s privacy who happens to be in the vicinity of his product. Researchers already found a dormant facial recognition pipeline quietly sitting inside the Meta AI app earlier this year, built and shipped without anyone opting in. I hope people have the power to sue if there are any recordings without consent. https://www.engadget.com/2187824/wired-found-code-for-an-unr...

ReptileMan

So what exactly is patentable? There has been a lot of prior art on the topic.

nephihaha

Why do you think it was called Facebook?

FLeXMurphy

Just last week you were all praising Meta for being so noble and chivalrous. What the fuck happened, lads? Whither the Meta?

shevy-java

They spy on people. Their spyglasses are the next step. I'd say Facebook is the most evil company, but we also have Google, so competition is fierce here. Kind of sad to see what became of the big US corporations - Evil prevailed there, continues and expands.

nelsonic

Meta = Dystopian Nightmare Disguised as Photo Sharing and Life Updates :-( It’s taken 2 decades for most people to realise this but “Zuck” is a Bond Villain.

prometheus1992

I was recently at a hotel where the front desk lady was wearing these glasses. I immediately saw the cameras and asked, "are those meta glasses", she said yeah but these are not on right now. I don't get how she thought it'd be a good idea to wear those glasses at a front desk job. This was a nice 4 star hotel in Atlanta. After I came home I decided that I am going to put up a sign in my front yard - "I will shoot you if I see you with meta glasses in front of my house". I don't own a gun but I will definitely put up the sign just to tell people how shitty they are.

DivingForGold

Hope lawyers eat him alive ... ZUCK IS PUBLIC ENEMY #1, PUBLIC PERVERT #1. How many male users of these pervert glasses are secretly recording attractive women at gyms, at beaches, in scantily clad clothing wherever, so they can go back home and "spank the monkey"? Our taking the video clips and running it through ai to create nudy content ?

jsrozner

Is the misspelling of "reel" -> "real" in the first sentence a sign that this was written by a human or a trick to make me think it was written by a human? I think it is the former.