Boz describes how Meta’s smart glasses facial recognition feature would work.
Meta's chief technology officer Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth has publicly described how a facial recognition feature could function on the company's smart glasses, offering a rare look at how the technology might be built into consumer wearable hardware.
Why this matters: Facial recognition on a pair of glasses you wear in public is a different category of surveillance than anything that came before. A phone camera is visible. A security camera is fixed. Glasses move with you, look where you look, and are easy to ignore. If this feature ships, anyone wearing Meta's glasses could potentially identify strangers on the street in real time. The person being identified gets no warning and no say. That is not a small privacy trade-off. It is a fundamental change to what it means to walk around in public anonymously.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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