Wednesday, October 16, 2024

"Are your glasses doxxing me?"

The pace of technological change comes at you fast, and it has a lot of implications that may not be immediately apparent.

Take these seemingly unrelated facts:
  • High-resolution digital cameras are tiny and ubiquitous.
  • Bluetooth, WiFi, and 5G connectivity is portable and everywhere.
  • Facial recognition technology continues to advance by leaps and bounds.
  • Everybody's in some sort of database these days.
Now, this caused a stink recently when people were using Meta's smart glasses to doxx random people via facial recognition, but there's no need to be using funky prototype smart glasses when your phone has a camera and the ability to locate and lock on to faces and you could theoretically, I dunno, just carry it backwards in your shirt pocket...

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