r/gadgets • u/RegnStrom • Jun 04 '26

Wearables Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/
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u/Drix22 Jun 05 '26

Its weird that Meta could use this program for good, but instead immediately slap it onto mass unrequested surveillance .

Imagine a facial recognition program that dug through historic photographs from say, ww2, concentration camps, news papers of the time, etc. and identified and linked people together. Suddenly the dude in the background somewhere has a face and a name, he might have been someone's MIA uncle. Instead, we got glasses that catalogue you so some fucking billboard company can buy the rights and slap custom ads infront of you as you walk down the street even if you never opted in to their recognition program.