*Meta CLAIMS TO HAVE stripped facial recognition code...
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
110 points (100.0% liked)
Privacy
5768 readers
255 users here now
Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.
Rules
PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!
- Be civil and no prejudice
- Don't promote big-tech software
- No apathy and defeatism for privacy (i.e. "They already have my data, why bother?")
- No reposting of news that was already posted
- No crypto, blockchain, NFTs
- No Xitter links (if absolutely necessary, use xcancel)
Related communities:
Some of these are only vaguely related, but great communities.
- !opensource@programming.dev
- !selfhosting@slrpnk.net / !selfhosted@lemmy.world
- !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- !drm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
No they said they fixed the thing they wanted to do. Everything's okay now.
thats why i only buy devices with an unlocked bootloader
Oh yeah, but how long until it "accidentally" gets "re-added" with a "software update"?
Or even if they just obfuscated the code?
That's really mean. How many times do you have to stop this man doing his favorite 90s SciFi novel before you accept you've done it?
I wouldn't mind it, but he seems to be obsessed with being the bad guy, being the evil villain that our as yet to be named hero shows up to stop with the power of friendship and incredible violence.
I think Hus name is just hiro.
Everyone who thinks this is permanent give me a dollar.
No way in hell is lizard zuck going to give up on getting all thay free personal data.
No, he said he would stop, why you internet commies always gotta assume bad faith when you discover the evil lizard man oligarch secretly trying to do 'snow crash' again?
Remember, folks... buy your sunglasses from safety stores - not tech bros.
I don't know that we can call this a victory. It's just a delay. The program wasn't even active yet. They're just pulling it the code and will just as it back in when it's "ready".
A victory would be Meta stating definitively that they'll never implement any sort of centralized facial recognition technology. And even that probably barely qualifies coming from a company that has repeatedly engaged in downright malicious surveillance.
A victory would be putting Fuckerberg and the rest of the leadership in prison and then breaking meta up into hundreds of useless companies that eventually go out of business. They deserve no less for what they've done to the world.
Why are we OK with smart glasses in the first place???
Because they agreed to ~~hide~~ remove one feature. Now we're cool with it. Jeez... If you would come to the meetings you would know this.
For now. Eventually it's going to be repackaged and reimplemented.
"In fascist America, glasses watch you!"
If I see anyone wearing these in public I'm still going to "accidentally" knock them onto the ground and break them.
You mean the glasses, right?
...
Right?
Uh huh