[rikroots]

This article triggers some thoughts for me, as a person who has developmental prosopagnosia[1].

In my ideal utopia I will wear (normal) glasses which include a tiny camera in the frame. When I'm in a gathering of people I would be able to frown or scrunch my nose which would trigger the camera to take an image of the person I'm looking at. The image uploads somewhere where some facial recognition software runs and returns a name to me - possibly in audio form (like a whisper in my ear). The image is not retained, but I would have the information I need to start/continue a conversation with that person without looking like an idiot for not remembering who they were in the first place.

There's barrel-loads of privacy concerns around this ideal utopia of mine. But I'm selfish and fed up with my disability which has, in the past, caused me serious social anxiety.

[1] - Also known as face blindness: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/face-blindness/

[oddlama]

Nothing here requires uploading the image to some form of cloud service. Do the recognition locally - maybe on a phone connected via Bluetooth. Never have any information leave the device and you will have significantly less privacy concerns.