Meta wütend über die Bomben-Enthüllung einer Smart-Brille
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/meta-furious-over-bombshell-smart-151912446.html
Meta wütend über die Bomben-Enthüllung einer Smart-Brille
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/meta-furious-over-bombshell-smart-151912446.html
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Meta – „we wrote code to do this but thats not proof we will actually do it! We might have just rolled this code out for a laugh!“
> A few well-known Meta higher-ups then weighed in on social media, doubling down on the allegation that Wired’s story was somehow „misleading.“
haha….yeah, right 🖕
„We are so mad that we got caught!“
What is the end game here do they sell this data to palantir?
What a perfect day to quit using their shit. I’d consider deleting all of my accounts and helping my friends do the same if they didn’t know how.
Those glasses look so dorky!
*“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,“*
We need to shame anyone even thinking about wearing these glasses.
Mark’s fetishes
Facebook claims that “One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database.“ Can’t really make this shit up.
Ban the pervert glasses
You can already see where this is going, not to the private sector but to law enforcement for civilian identification on the street. Along with all sorts of handy data to make arresting or other arm twisting that much easier.
So when users inevitably wear them in gym locker rooms do they also cross reference the naked dudes with their Only Fans vids? This tech shouldn’t be allowed.
did you roll out facial recognition to your meta glasses? Yes you did. You aren’t developing this and rolling it into „prod“ if you don’t plan to do anything with it. No one believes you.
Delete your Facebook and Instagram, Meta is a scourge
After reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams, this reaction doesn’t surprise me. That entire book revealed that anytime something ethical could be done, the FB team was almost allergic to the thought and did the opposite causing maximum damage to society.
*In the striking memo, the tech giant noted that the ethically-fraught feature should ideally be launched „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.“*
Jesus tap dancing Christ, what a fucking villain.
„It’s just something we’re exploring with no intention to implement“
[angry goose meme] THEN WHY ADD IT TO ALL THE GLASSES
Nothing about the piece was misleading or slanderous. If it were, their C-suite and leadership team would have had lawyers all over Wired. They didn’t, and are resorting to crying.
Probably was setting up infrastructure to do a slow-rollout of the feature suite to help normalize the entire tech stack before Wired caught them, hence their bitching.
Meta is cancer
„Incredibly misleading from *Wired*, sadly we are coming to expect that from them more and more. Absolutely dishonest.“ … Corprofascists arguing that it doesn’t count because they haven’t turned it on yet…
Meta doesn’t care about your privacy. It’s doing everything it can to circumvent it, actually. Take their products off your phones.
So tired of all this surveillance without consent…where are the privacy laws?
We are absolutely shocked to find our latest mass surveillance product is capable of *checks notes* „mass surveillance“
Whenever meta gets caught doing something wrong they don’t focus on making it right they focus on going after whoever allowed it to get out and then double down on more secrecy.
Meta’s longtime chief technology officer, Andrew „Boz“ Bosworth jumped in, adding: „Incredibly misleading from *Wired*, sadly we are coming to expect that from them more and more. Absolutely dishonest.“
Honestly man. Fuckin same. It’s crazy how the big companies keep getting angry at all this journalism that’s outing their terrible, unethical, and illegal plans. Just an absolute shame that they can’t leave us the fuck alone.
Meta can shove these PedoVision glasses up Zuck’s booty hole.
you know, playing devil’s advocate here, this technology would be a fantastic aid for people with Prosopagnosia (face blindness) or memory loss where the glasses would scan faces, then prompt names and relationships to the wearer.
That being said, The problem I have is that I wouldn’t trust Meta as far as I could throw Zuckerberg, and completely see them abusing the data for money making. There are very few organisations that would develop the technology and sell the data for millions.
The fact that multiple execs immediately put out seemingly coordinated posts that attacked Wired directly and tried to claim it’s shoddy and dishonest overall feels like a MAGA overreaction to a factual piece that struck close to a closely held thing they didn’t want light shined on.
Good job, Meta, you just initiated the Streisand Effect on this story.
And Wired has absolutely been killing it with socially relevant and truthful reporting since DOGE. So calling them click bait and dishonest really puts you in a bad light. You’re bleeding what little trust people had left in you.
“we are not building a central face database”
… said the company whose product name is… wait for it… “Facebook”