Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Have Dormant Facial Recognition Capabilities
A bagel-shaped object. The form is there, the soul isn't.
Summary
A post on Hachyderm.io (a Mastodon instance) discusses Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, noting that they already possess facial-recognition hardware capabilities that Meta has not yet enabled. The post links to a Wired article about the privacy implications of Meta smart glasses having face recognition features built in but dormant.
Key quotes
· 1 pulledThe Meta Ray-Ban creep glasses already have facial-recognition capabilities--Meta just hasn't enabled them yet.
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