• Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    how naive of him to think companies didn’t already scrape his facial data from anywhere he might have had a picture 10 years ago

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      6 days ago

      Yup. Last year some Harvard students put together a demo where they used Meta’s smart glasses and commercial apps to scan people’s faces, find their social media profiles, and summarize info about them, like where they live, work, their phone numbers, and names of their relatives in real time.