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Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds

arstechnica.com

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The article suggests opting out of PimEyes.

https://pimeyes.com/en/opt-out-request-form

So go ahead and upload multiple face pics, your government issued ID, and email address. What a joke

Oh my god, that's insane! This is the clearest example I've seen of why we need better privacy regulations.

There is nothing stopping a company from just spinning up and doing this to compete with PimEyes, and then you'd have to opt-out of that one too.

Absolutely wild!

Or using all those Opt Out pictures as part of new training data (they will never admit to it and hide behind vague “proprietary training sets” as origins) spinning off a “new company” using the improved facial recognition and no one is opted out of New Company™

> Training datasets are highly guarded secrets in the face recognition industry. Companies are reluctant to disclose their data sources out of fear it could cause legal issues. For example, in 2021 an NBC investigation11 revealed that Everalbum, Inc. (now Paravision AI) was charged by the Federal Trade Commission for using millions of users’ faces without consent to build face recognition technologies. The FTC forced Everalbum to delete all biometric data and any face recognition model trained using it.12 Coincidentally, Everalbum’s AI group was listed as a user of the MegaFace dataset of non-consensual Flickr images. Ever AI (now Paravision) also participated in the NIST Visa-Border that uses 1.6M apparently non-consensual face images from border crossings in U.S. It seems that no matter where your selfies are appearing these days, companies and government agencies are eager to use it as biometric data. https://adam.harvey.studio/todays-selfie/

Mr. @cstross published an incredible series of books called Halting State about a future in which people have glasses that can life log, recording everything. Same with Daniel Suarez's amazing books Daemon and Freedom(TM). When I first read these books I thought "WOW I must have those glasses" because I would love if my glasses did facial recognition and identified people in crowds that I am connected to, recording, etc.

Way off the creepy scale if I were on the other side of that, but the idea is very, very tantalizing. IMO it's only a matter of time before we have wearable, discreet cameras that do exactly this. No celebrity, etc. will be able to hide in a crowd. It may very well be a nightmare.

Or more generally, "[a camera + Internet connection + PimEyes] can be used to dox anyone in seconds".

Doc from the students explaining their work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724310

From their homepage: "For $29.99 a month PimEyes offers a potentially dangerous superpower from the world of science fiction" - NYT

I'm not sure that's a winning endorsement.

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