Meta Can’t Be Trusted With Smart Glasses
Last week, the NYT published a bombshell of a report that alleged Meta was looking to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses while civil liberty groups were preoccupied with “the political tumult in the United States.” The report also alluded to Meta possibly using accessibility as a guise to avoid backlash found with facial recognition. If the reporting is accurate, it’s bottom of the barrel awfulness that should be denounced.
Given the NYT’s unfair coverage of Apple, part of me is hesitant to believe this latest Meta story. However, the statement Meta provided the NYT and the specific allegations regarding what was found in an internal memo add credibility to the story. In addition, what is being alleged isn’t out of character for a company that has been involved in a long list of incidents involving lackluster privacy protections and secret data collection.
Consensus is being too laissez-faire with Meta’s move into smart glasses. It’s time to put tech fascination aside to state the uncomfortable truth: Meta’s broadening move into smart glasses can’t be trusted as it pertains to upholding privacy and data protections.
Meta has been dabbling in hardware for
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