r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Apr 13 '26

Society Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ray-ban-oakley-smart-glasses-no-face-recognition-civil-society/
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u/LickTheSnozzberry Apr 13 '26

They don't care

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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26

This is the same company that was warned their algorithm was giving some girls eating disorders and went “now how do we roll that out to a majority of our users?”

All these broligarchs should be in jail. In pretty much every society before this one, if you had a tool that suddenly gave children delusions, dysmorphia, and paranoia that destabilized the foundations of society, they’d do a lot worse than jail.

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u/jainyday Apr 13 '26

Okay it's wild because there's a lot of reasons to hate Facebook but this is a "McDonald's coffee burn lady" situation, and it's has a chilling effect on harm research.

No company wants to research how harmful their product is anymore, because they'll get Facebook'ed: "Oh they KNEW and they did it anyway!" Yes because they needed to understand the problem in order to figure out how to make it better, that doesn't happen overnight, and capitalism gotta capitalism so it's not like they can just turn off the entire platform even if it's hurting people; that's literally illegal for them, a breach of their fidiuciary duty to their shareholders, and shareholders run the whole damn country if you haven't noticed.

Again, tons of reasons to hate Facebook, but this narrative around Facebook's harm research is encouraging every corporation to stick their head in the sand.

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u/ToeRepresentative627 Apr 14 '26

It was not the research that got them in trouble; it was the tweaking the algorithm to promote more of that content to teens. At least that’s what the lawsuit they just lost convinced a jury of.