lennat:

Which one of you was it that came up with the idea of a face recognition app on google glasses?

I don’t think I got the idea from anyone else, but it’s such an obvious idea that I expect plenty of other prosos have come up with it independently.

I was just talking about this earlier today. (That post in turn links to the post before that, which links to the post before that, which I think was the first one.) I’m not sure if this is news to you: for all I know, you wandered by my Tumblr and that’s what prompted you to post this in the first place.

(I was discussing this with my family recently, and my parents think I should start a letter-writing campaign to pressure Google to allow facial recognition. It’s an interesting idea in theory, but I don’t think I’m the one to do it. Even assuming I figure out how to go about such a campaign, it’s a lose-lose situation: either it fails, in which case…you know, it fails, or it succeeds, in which case as its founder I’m the one who gets stuck dealing with the media and whatnot, and I don’t think I could cope with that.)

(I also learned recently of Lambda Labs, which was working on a black-market facial recognition Glass app. (They started working on it pre-ban, but said they would continue with it post-ban.) However, all of the news articles I found about it (such as this one) were slightly over a year old, and it seems that nobody has heard from the developer(s) in an official capacity for six months. I don’t have high hopes for it.)

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