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One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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I don't trust Meta with anything.
Sound likes a stellar company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People
As well you shouldn't. Back at the beginning of the year the NYT dropped a bunch of leaked memos about such a feature and at the time Facebook claimed that they weren't planning to release such a thing.
Now there's actual code for it, and their newest leaked memos prove they actually were planning to release such a thing and even had planned to do so at a time when people would be distracted by politics or other hot button issues so they could fly under the radar and not face as much backlash.
I fucking hate them so much. Does anyone wanna stop using WhatsApp? No. Wtf is wrong with people?
It’s FOMO or fear or something equally as dumb. They’re like sheep, or cattle
I trust them with losing billions on fucking stupid ideas. Oh, the advantage of a Harvard education.
He dropped out in his sophomore year.
This is just plain old rich person advantage.