"According to reports, Meta is planning to add facial recognition to its artificial intelligence-powered sunglasses, as a means to enhance connection. Which is not overly surprising, given the added connectivity benefits this could provide for glasses wearers. But facial recognition has long been a sensitive area, with Meta shutting down its facial recognition processes on Facebook entirely in 2021, after user backlash around the automated detection of faces in images, particularly via photo tagging."
"Meta knows this will be controversial, but apparently, it also has a plan to limit negative impacts. According to reports, Meta has been hoping to quietly add this feature amid broader political disruption in the U.S., in order to limit public blow back. As per an internal Meta communication (as reported by The New York Times): 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."
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its artificial intelligence-powered sunglasses to enhance connectivity and gather data for system training. Facial recognition has long been sensitive; Meta shut down facial recognition on Facebook in 2021 after user backlash over automated face detection and photo tagging. Meta has recently reinstated Face ID for account security, and extending recognition to glasses could broaden data collection and impact non-user privacy. Internal communications indicate a strategy to time the launch during a dynamic U.S. political environment to reduce organized pushback. The timing raises concerns about ethical deployment, regulatory avoidance, and expansion of Meta's information network.
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