Meta’s patent takes that concern considerably further.
The proposed system would not simply capture everything indiscriminately. It could use facial-recognition algorithms to identify people, evaluate facial expressions, incorporate information about the wearer’s relationship with those individuals and use eye-gaze information to determine which subjects deserve focus.
In Meta’s dinner-party example, the technology could recognize people important to the wearer and automatically assemble memorable moments afterward.
That sounds convenient.
But consider the same capability from the perspective of everyone else in the room.
You may not merely be visible to another person.
You may be visible to a computer system attempting to determine who you are, what expression is on your face and whether something you just did qualifies as an interesting event.
That moves wearable technology from recording reality toward interpreting reality.
And the people being interpreted may never have agreed to participate.
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