Meta Patents Facial Recognition Glasses That Auto-Record People
Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Meta has filed a patent for a 'memory recall' system in its Ray-Ban smart glasses that uses facial recognition to automatically record people and later present highlights. This comes amid criticism of the glasses being used for surreptitious recording, despite a capture LED meant to indicate recording. Meta has previously taken steps to disable the camera if the LED is covered, but a future version may record without the indicator. The patent includes examples like generating highlights of a dinner party without asking for consent. While a patent doesn't guarantee the feature's release, Meta's consideration of it raises privacy concerns, especially after it was caught sending sensitive recordings to workers for training.
While mobile phones and action cameras don’t have this on their cameras, ours have had them since day one.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- throwaway2027
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOnQ8CD3v4g
Person of Interest (2011)
- alasr
FB in meat-space: see, for reference, page# 11 of the Meta's patent - https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloa...
- 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.
- lapkaaaa
Portable Flock camera here we go