Meta planning facial recognition with glasses

Meta’s smart glasses have an outward facing camera pointed at what you’re looking at. This lets you record video and take photos. As they integrate AI deeper into the product, Meta plans to bring facial recognition with that camera. The New York Times viewed an internal memo on how Meta hopes to launch this feature.

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.

It’s not surprising they were having such discussions. But still. They’re not exactly making it easy to trust them to do right with your data, information, and privacy.