With the increasing prevalence of cameras and improving AI tech and facial recognition, is there increasing concerns regarding the loss of privacy? This is loss of both the ability to maintain separation of work personas from home personas, but also increasing ability to maliciously broadcast people? I'm wondering this for both clients and providers.
I'm seeing so many TikTokers do the whole using meta glasses to approach people shtick. Sometimes it's for a magic trick. Sometimes it's for photography or to draw someone and to get their reaction after. Sometimes it's to go to a restaurant. Sometimes it to pickup women. On the more nefarious side, I think there was a channel that got banned where a guy would wear meta glasses and go into asian massage parlors and ask for services. There's even services that will hack your glasses so there is no light or signal to show others you are recording. Also, Google recently announced their are relaunching their own, and there are rumors that Meta has added smart features such as live translation and captioning, directions, AI visual responses, etc. So there will be more reason for normal, non nefarious people to want to wear them daily.
Wired recently unveiled hidden facial recognition code on meta glasses (https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/) that detects contacts on your phone. But this shouldn't be surprising as two Harvard students in 2024 showed how easy it was (
) to pull home addresses from facial recognition. Now it maybe easy to spot people wearing these smart glasses, but as the report said, it can be done with any camera hidden or not hidden. It could be done with cell phone cameras that aren't physically covered like how some performance venues tape your phone.
On the other hand, there was this story from China where Uncle Red recorded 1600 client encounters (
). It was hilarious because she advertised as a woman, but was obviously a man in woman's clothing, but most men would still go through the appointment after they found out during the meeting. He also asked for gifts or very low value gifts like half a bottle of cooking oil. Of course the serious part he was selling these recordings without the client's consent. If a provider like him did this others could also use recordings or screening material to extort others leading to fewer people being willing to say screen. This would reduce the "trust" that is inherent in this work perhaps increasing the level of cautiousness and hostility both parties could have towards each other ultimately reducing safety, comfort and pleasure.
I'm seeing so many TikTokers do the whole using meta glasses to approach people shtick. Sometimes it's for a magic trick. Sometimes it's for photography or to draw someone and to get their reaction after. Sometimes it's to go to a restaurant. Sometimes it to pickup women. On the more nefarious side, I think there was a channel that got banned where a guy would wear meta glasses and go into asian massage parlors and ask for services. There's even services that will hack your glasses so there is no light or signal to show others you are recording. Also, Google recently announced their are relaunching their own, and there are rumors that Meta has added smart features such as live translation and captioning, directions, AI visual responses, etc. So there will be more reason for normal, non nefarious people to want to wear them daily.
Wired recently unveiled hidden facial recognition code on meta glasses (https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/) that detects contacts on your phone. But this shouldn't be surprising as two Harvard students in 2024 showed how easy it was (
On the other hand, there was this story from China where Uncle Red recorded 1600 client encounters (
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