Privacy

32424 readers

307 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by CoderSupreme@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

17 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What's actually making this possible is the PimEyes database. It's insane that there is a facial recognition database that can be accessed like this. I doubt this is anywhere near legal in the EU.

The media keeps concentrating on Meta and the researchers but you can do the same with phone cameras, doorbell cameras, etc.

[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Yeah pimeyes absolutely needs to be shut down and laws need to be in place to protect private citizens from having their information sharable and searchable without their explicit consent. "Publicly available information" is always the line people use to defend these services. I'm arguing that our modern capabilities needs to be adjusted for. Things shouldn't be so publicly accessable in the first place and personal data aggregation should be a much more vetted and potentially licensed business. Can we talk about what other purpose these facial recognition databases serve other than to stalk, expose, or extort people? If they required proof of identity and only allowed searches of your own face then I could understand the value.