More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260413160924/https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ray-ban-oakley-smart-glasses-no-face-recognition-civil-society/
Meta:
quite literally the worst and most sociopathic invention possible
This sort of item should be illegal.
That’s Meta’s whole intention with these.
Meta will arm them… but they won’t have legs
…in pursuit of what?
Data?
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making a mechanical scream similar to the body snatchers people in tha tmovie.
Wouldn’t be surprised if there are some Palantir x Meta smart glasses in the pipeline.
More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, warning that the feature—reportedly known inside the company as “Name Tag”—would hand stalkers, abusers, and federal agents the ability to silently identify strangers in public… In the May 2025 memo from Meta’s Reality Labs that the Times obtained, Meta reportedly wrote that it would 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.”
The main issue isn’t even the technology itself, it’s that it’s Meta and owned by the Zuck.
I’m sure there are ways to engineer this so the data stays on device and use it for specific scientific purposes exclusively.
There is absolutely.
You’ll never appease the shareholders or maintain your
quarterlygrowth that way… ^Trump is pushing to eliminate quarterly reports for public companies, so they may not need to care and can just be evil for the sake of it.^It’s funny how they enshittify it for consumers first, but now aiming spread enshitification to wall street so they can fuck those 401ks even harder.
Capitalism baby!
The main issue isn’t even the technology itself, it’s that it’s Meta and owned by the Zuck.
There are a thousand corporations tripping over themselves to out-horrify the public.
I’m sure there are ways to engineer this so the data stays on device and use it for specific scientific purposes exclusively.
I’m sure there are but if you see one in public, how would you know? Best just to ban them all.
zuck is meta.
Well yeah look who made them
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What? They didn’t learn this the first time? Yes the glasses are a cool idea but we need to be more responsible.
I don’t even get why anyone thinks they are cool. They don’t even have displays in them. I would understand for smart glasses with no cameras, but the ability to display a HUD with navigation, music info, text messages, etc.
just like the og google glasses it ended used for PORN.
If it makes money then nothing else counts. Go american capitalism! /s
That’s capitalism: they have to please their shareholders.
