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    1. BendicantMias on

      [Archive Link](https://archive.md/xAtyG#selection-493.0-493.68) to avoid the paywall.

      >Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find “the right balance” for a technology that raises privacy and legal concerns. Now it wants to bring facial recognition back.

      >Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.

      >“*We will launch 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*,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

    4. eternalityLP on

      Nice, they can start reducing your social credit if you talk to unapproved people.

    6. FoundationGreat7072 on

      New age, don`t trust anyone with glasses, clap clap, thats not the way to define future.

    7. new_random_username on

      I hope that feature (or even the glasses) get outlawed in Europe.

    9. SchrodingersNutsack on

      How do I opt out of a service from a company I don’t even use?

    10. heavy-minium on

      Lol these glasses don’t even do enough that I wouldn’t even use them for free, and yet they want to do this?! How is this company not bankrupt yet? And remember how it flopped so much after blowing that massive marketing budget?

    11. pomcomic on

      Just wait for a government agency to tap into these like they did with Nest cameras. This is an absolute nightmare and needs to be banned yesterday.

    12. onyxlabyrinth1979 on

      This is one of those developments that sounds small on paper but has big downstream implications. Facial recognition in something like smart glasses isn’t just a feature upgrade, it changes the social contract. With fixed cameras such as in CCTV and phones, there’s at least some visibility that recording might be happening. With wearable glasses, identification becomes ambient and invisible. The obvious concerns are privacy and consent. Most people didn’t agree to have their face scanned in public spaces and matched against databases in real time. Even if Meta limits it to opt-in databases at first, history shows features tend to expand once normalized. There’s also the error problem. Facial recognition systems have improved, but they’re not perfect. False positives in a handheld app are one thing. False identification in everyday social situations is another, especially if people start acting on that information. And then there’s the normalization factor. Once enough people wear these, opting out becomes impossible. You can choose not to use them, but you can’t choose not to be seen by them. From a technical standpoint, it’s predictable. From a societal standpoint, it’s another step toward frictionless identification in public spaces. Whether that increases safety, convenience, or just surveillance depends heavily on regulation, and historically, regulation tends to trail capability. It’s not dystopia tomorrow. But it is a meaningful shift in what public anonymity means.

    14. Tinelytolmit on

      The facial rec is going to get it wrong one day and lead to some random guy arrested

    15. somethingohyeah on

      Can someone explain to me why is this needed ??? I already understand the public surveilance bit, but how does this benefit the person wearing these glasses?

    18. Rude-Dependent-4353 on

      Because of course they do. After all, they’re Meta, they have a reputation to uphold.

    19. Waterprop on

      Great, more devices that companies and intelligence agencies can spy us with.

      Anyway, I don’t think Smart Glasses will take off like smartphones and smartwatches did.

    21. HamsterAdorable2666 on

      So all we have to do is stop using their shit.

      It would be hard but if we can encourage people to make it a trend to detox all together on the same day maybe the impact will encourage people to extend the days or make it easier to boycott these fascist companies altogether.

    22. SkyYandere on

      If t hose anti-paparazzi glasses actually work, they’re going to see a large uptick in sales soon…

    26. foghillgal on

      So Glasshole V2 I guess.

      So, making a fracking database of everyone you meet. Meta should pay people for those glasses since they`re basically Google Street view cars for people.

      Remember when Google blurred peoples face… Well, in this case they fracking take in people`s face!! I’m pretty sure the EU will be all fine and dandy with all that.

    27. dimwalker on

      Earlier kids wearing glasses were bullied for being „4-eyed freaks“ now they will be bullied for being „spies“.
      No rest for the myopic.

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