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Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its smart glasses
Internal documents reveal Meta relaxed privacy reviews in January 2025 and plans to launch the feature amid political turbulence, according to the New York Times.
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Meta plan to use political turmoil as cover for new surveillance tech rollout
Meta, the parent company for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, plans to introduce new face scanning tech while people are distracted by current political turbulence. The Trump-adjacent corporation plans to package the feature in new smart glasses. An internal Meta document seen by the New York Times (NYT) says: We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have thei…
Will there be facial recognition on Meta-RayBan glasses?
Facebook began experimenting with automatic tagging of subjects in photos posted on the social network in 2010, but closed it down about ten years later amidst privacy controversies. Now, however, it is reportedly considering introducing facial recognition on the much-anticipated Ray-Ban Meta Displays. At CES 2026 in January, Meta announced its intention to postpone the international launch outside the US of its new Ray-Ban Display smart glasses…
The success around Meta's smart lenses provokes an exploration of technologies that the company had forgotten. And it is that according to a New York Times report, the firm considers integrating facial recognition functions to this device even when it raises privacy concerns. According to the report, which consulted four people involved in Meta's plans, this function is planned to be included in the gadget this year and will allow users to ident…
Meta prepares a new feature for its Ray-Ban connected glasses. Name Tag, it would allow us to identify people crossed on the street thanks to facial recognition. This innovation raises as much interest as serious concerns about privacy and data security. Meta wants to use facial recognition to seduce Meta buyers wants to differentiate her Ray-Ban glasses in an expanding market. With "Name Tag", the built-in artificial intelligence assistant coul…
The social media giant discreetly prepares a feature called Name Tag, likely to equip its Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2026. According to the New York Times, this system would exploit facial recognition via artificial intelligence to identify people crossed on the street. An initiative that rekindles concerns about respect for privacy, ... Read more Meta's article envisages facial recognition for its connected glasses despite the controversies appea…
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