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One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7112@lemmy.world 43 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

One memo reportedly described releasing it during a “dynamic political environment,” when privacy and civil liberties advocates would be distracted. Last week, WIRED reported that much of NameTag’s machinery was already built into the Meta AI app, downloaded by millions of users, as early as January, even as Meta publicly said it had made no final decision about face recognition.

Sound likes a stellar company