Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes

Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by mike-cardwell on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @08:50AM (#3265474)

I look forward to the day when my enemies leave an unattended Facebook session open, and I can update their status so they have a big "I'm carrying five grand in my wallet right now" sign floating above their heads as they walk around dark alleyways.

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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by DilipJ on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @10:42AM (#3265897)

I know that was in jest (if not, you may be turning into a supervillian), but the actual implications of having facial recognition built into contacts is immense. It will be a Minority Report type world, where anonymity would be completely gone.

I guess it would mean no criminal outlaws or parole violators walking around, but for a common man to not be able to walk anywhere without everyone around him knowing everything there is to know about him....that's scary

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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by Symmetry on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @11:57AM (#3266271)

It is, but then again that's what most humans have lived their entire lives doing, living in small communities where everyone knew everyone else since childhood.

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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by DilipJ on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @08:51PM (#3268388)

isn't that why most people leave small towns, to go to a big city and be anonymous. To be able to get away from their past?

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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by pavel_lishin on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @01:06PM (#3266571)

I imagine that sharing facial-recognition data will be protected by new laws - although, of course, it won't work.

Perhaps we'll start seeing new fashions arise as a result: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/03/cv-dazzle/

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Re:Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes by DilipJ on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @08:52PM (#3268391)

I guess we would no longer need passports or any government id. Just one look at us by the authorities and that's it.

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