Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation
2026-06-08 22:27 UTC
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@GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2026-06-08 23:48
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@perishthethought@piefed.social 2026-06-08 23:21
Last week, Wired reported that Meta discreetly moved to infuse facial recognition tech into its popular smart glasses, as evidenced by a piece of code discovered in the Meta AI app by the magazine’s journalists. The unreleased feature, internally dubbed “NameTag,” would “transform faces captured by Meta’s glasses into unique biometric signatures, commonly known as faceprints, and check each one against faceprints stored on the user’s phone — a database that’s currently configured to receive updates from Meta,” as Wired put it. Though it’s not yet actively available for consumers.
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@mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2026-06-09 04:05
It’s pretty easy to not get caught surveiling customers. All you have to do is… Not surveil customers.
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@ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip 2026-06-09 04:14
Yes we’re beta testing this feature but we pinky promise, swearsies that we’re never going to actually use it even though we’re beta testing it to make sure it works.
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@Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 2026-06-08 22:49
Furious? Cuckerberg was spying on us and THEY are furious?? Get fucked assholes!
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-06-09 04:02
And yet, according to the company’s executives, it’s “dishonest” to inform the public about a piece of unreleased tech that Meta has chosen to incorporate into a consumer product. Meta referred to the discovery as “sensational” and characterized NameTag as exploratory. “We’ve said before we’re exploring these types of features, and what you’re seeing is just evidence of that exploration,” the company said in a statement to Wired. “Nothing has shipped to consumers and no final decision has been made on what to do here, if anything. If we do decide to roll something out, we will take a and do so with full transparency. One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database.” “It’s not until [paragraph] four that Wired says this feature is ’not enabled,’” declared Meta spokesperson and VP of communications Andy Stone. “And then takes until [paragraph] 16 for Wired to reflect that Meta has no existing plans and this is exploratory. And not until [paragraph] ten does Wired quote its own expert saying the feature is not ‘exposed to consumers.’” “This is more than shoddy reporting, it’s intellectually dishonest,” Stone continued. “Pure advocacy-driven click bait.” The fact that you’re “exploring” this tech at all is deeply concerning. You’ve done everything possible to erode the trust of the public so why would anyone believe you would do it “thoughtfully”?
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-06-09 07:53
If that feature gets activated one day, will taking down and destroying someones Smart Glasses count as self-defence?