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Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 21 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Last week, Wired reported that Meta discreetly moved to infuse facial recognition tech into its popular smart glasses, as evidenced by a piece of code discovered in the Meta AI app by the magazine's journalists. The unreleased feature, internally dubbed "NameTag," would "transform faces captured by Meta's glasses into unique biometric signatures, commonly known as faceprints, and check each one against faceprints stored on the user's phone — a database that's currently configured to receive updates from Meta," as Wired put it.

Though it's not yet actively available for consumers.

[–] terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't mean meta isn't already tagging every face it can and logging them then selling the data

[–] ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

So …it’s literally FaceBook

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

NameTag

Wat a patronizing as fuck codename to boot 🤬

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 2 points 34 minutes ago

It'll go perfectly with the Luigi app that highlights millionaires in your vision.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Eh, it's a name you could easily also encounter from a FOSS project without malicious intent.