Meta Plans Facial Recognition for Smart Glasses During Political Distractions
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Summary
Meta plans to introduce facial recognition technology to its smart glasses, strategically timing the launch to coincide with periods when privacy advocates and civil society groups are distracted by political events, according to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times. The 'Name Tag' feature would allow glasses wearers to identify people using Meta's AI assistant, raising significant privacy concerns.
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· 3 pulledMeta says it will launch the feature '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.'
Meta aims to introduce facial recognition to its smart glasses while its biggest critics are distracted, according to a report from The New York Times.
The document is from last May and reportedly describes the new 'Name Tag' feature that would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people using Meta's built-in AI assistant.
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