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β 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/
β"The feature is not yet exposed to consumers but seems nearly ready to go," says [Cooper Quintin, a #security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundationβs Threat Lab]. "Despite the billions of reasons not to, #Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed #surveillance machine."β
#Face
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/
β"The feature is not yet exposed to consumers but seems nearly ready to go," says [Cooper Quintin, a #security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundationβs Threat Lab]. "Despite the billions of reasons not to, #Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed #surveillance machine."β
#Face
WIRED
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Metaβs smart glasses platform. Itβs designed to identify people via biometric data stored on usersβ phones.