Comment by neuronic | Hacker News Reader

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> someday all the people around me will have MMO-style nameplates

No, thank you, kind user. Just because you are unable to remember the names of relevant people around you, there is no particular reason why anyone sensible should agree to have personal data be transmitted to random people around them at all times.

Such name identification on the fly then contributes to a (still fictional for the public) global real time people location service. Great, because 5 people are in line-of-sight of George McGeorgeface he is now confirmed to be at the dildo store in downtown Nairobi although he claimed to be sick for work, thank you face recognition APIs!

It's bad enough that we get tracked and screwed for ad data nowadays which just happens to not even stay in the ad space.....

You bring up some good points, but I would be happy with having that info for people in my Contacts list. I would see it like this, each user has an id, and I would be able to tie that id to a name. And it would only be visible if they were in eye-sight.

Woah, OK, we clearly picture this service working very differently. I'm not asking for everyone to be geotagged in some publicly accessible database. Ew. I just want locally running facial recognition paired with speech-to-text which is smart enough to recognize introductions, so that when five people introduce themselves to me in quick succession after I stumble off a red-eye flight, and then three weeks later one of them comes up to me acting like they know me, I have some chance of knowing who the hell they are.

It’s amazing how much anxiety this would remove from my life. A very significant amount, like, I’m ready for this now please.

To circumvent this, I think it would be great if user had to option to make a geofence. Like they could enable their Contact details being detected in a Conference/Meetup? networking event,as the person himself/herself will benefit from this. Then, outside a particular location your ID gets locked down sort of like location based -Smart Lock in smartphones.

Almost certainly this is already possible with Facebook's graph and the current state of facial recognition in photos.

Speak for yourself. I would permit and embrace it.

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