Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distra

Source: Futurism

Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

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According to new reporting by the New York Times, Meta could make the facial recognition features available to smart glasses owners as early as this year. Internally, the software goes by the designation “Name Tag.” Per the NYT‘s sources, it would let anyone who owns Meta’s smart glasses to identify people in the real world, instantly pulling up their information through Meta’s AI assistant.

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The same documents likewise argued that domestic political turmoil across the US in May of 2025 — this was in the early days of Trump’s deportation campaign, Elon Musk’s DOGE agenda, and more — would made an appealing time window for the release of such a controversial feature because the public would be too burned out to notice or care.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the memo read, per the NYT.

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If they do, the privacy nightmare Meta’s smart glasses already represent will only get worse. As American Civil Liberties Union deputy director Nathan Freed Wessler told the NYT: “Face recognition technology on the streets of America poses a uniquely dire threat to the practical anonymity we all rely on. This technology is ripe for abuse.”

Read more: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facial-recognition-glasses

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Everytime I think I can't hate Meta and Zuckerberg more...

And if anyone thinks Trump and any RW Republican who succeeds him won't be able to get all the surveillance footage from these smart glasses, you haven't been paying attention to Zuckerberg.