Submitted 21 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
Archived version: archive.is/…/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-…
In other words they’re deploying code to the edge, in real time apps, that they’ve had since at least 2010 on the servers. Filling a database that they’ve ‘deleted’ before (trust us, bro) due to mass outrage and been successfully sued for multiple times. Like they say, if you’re rich enough (and a corporation so no one goes to jail) it’s not a crime, it’s a fine. Apparently this database is worth $2B in fines, surely they won’t use it for evil…
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Oh wow, fantastic. If you wear those in public, you deserve to be punched. That’s so unbelievably intrusive.