Meta quietly added facial recognition to smart glasses, sparking major privacy concerns: report
Meta has reportedly added facial recognition capabilities to its smart glasses, according to a new report. The feature was not prominently disclosed to users or the public at the time it was introduced.
Why this matters: Smart glasses already make it hard to tell when someone is recording you. Add facial recognition and a stranger can now point their face at you in a coffee shop and pull up who you are. You have no way to know it is happening and no way to opt out. This is not a theoretical privacy risk. It is a tool that turns everyday public space into a identification system. The question is not whether the technology works. It is why Meta treated the decision to add it as something that did not need to be said out loud.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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