"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."
""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."
Meta's smart glasses include an outward-facing camera that records video and photos of whatever the user looks at. Meta plans to integrate AI into the glasses and add facial recognition tied to that camera. The company planned to time the feature launch during a period of intense U.S. political activity, expecting civil society groups to be occupied with other concerns and less likely to mobilize opposition. The timing rationale frames regulatory and reputational risk management as part of product rollout planning. Continuous outward-facing recording plus facial recognition raises substantial privacy, surveillance, and trust concerns for users.
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