Anti-Google Glass - Interesting Article
Worried about your privacy and how Google Glass can surreptitiously pull up your personal info from just the face?
Thoughts?
"Privacy advocates worried about how such technology might be used with Google’s specs may be interested to learn that researchers at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan have found a way to prevent face recognition technology from working, and it doesn’t involve pulling a latex mask over your head.
The Tokyo-based team has developed a device – also a pair of specs – that prevents Glass or similar technology from recognizing a face. The specs are fitted with 11 near-infrared LEDs which shine a bright light, confusing cameras looking to locate a face.
“Light from these near infrared LEDs can’t be seen by the human eye, but when it passes through the camera’s imaging device, it appears bright,” explained NII associate professor Isao Echizen.
Understanding that the technology only works with cameras that are sensitive to infrared light, Echizen and his team are now experimenting with reflective materials in an attempt to produce the same result with other face-detecting cameras.
Whether the NII’s work one day results in the formation of two distinct spec-wearing camps – Glass and anti-Glass – remains to be seen, but anyone interested in Echizen’s tech should check out the video below.
As the commercial launch of Google Glass draws ever closer, discussions centering on privacy concerns have become more widespread, drawing the attention of many political bodies around the world.
Last month, a Congressional privacy group sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page requesting information on privacy infringement issues regarding Glass. And just last week officials from six nations sent a joint letter to the Mountain View company setting down a series of questions they want answered about the head-based tech."
Fox News
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Gettin reeeeeeeal tired of all this privacy shit
Can't the gubmint and Google just stay outta our business
all 4 google glass dawg - pull up fb profile of any hot gurl u see on the streets - custom mode lets u only see relationship status and see if u should sarge her or not
Mudkipz has quickly become one of my favorite posters on this site.
That's cause it's blastoise, duh.
And if you're recording people in public, there's no privacy issue. If you walk into a private place and the owner/operator tells you to shut that shit down, then there's a privacy violation. It isn't fucking rocket science.
He's Blastoise? No way! Proof?
jus 1 question - how do rats invest in AIDs
my first pokefan !
no i'm not! and it's blastoise not Blastoise :p
besides mudkip > blastoise - everstone ftw
Case in point, that's exactly something blast would say.
Love how the people most angry over "privacy" issues are people the government would have the least interest in--20 and 30-something white males who live in their parents basement and who work at the proverbial "Empire Records" if they're even employed at all.
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