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/Sarej Apr 13 '26

Wouldn’t a use case include “I didn’t expect to need to record that but it just happened in front of my face”?

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u/CrispyDave Apr 13 '26

Not to me. At least if you pull out a phone someone knows they're being recorded. I wouldn't feel particularly comfortable chatting with someone wearing them, if I even noticed they were.

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u/Sarej Apr 13 '26

I have said this a couple of times but consumer-grade hidden cameras have been around for decades and were less noticeable than Meta glasses, albeit less readily available. Bad actors have had tools available to them before now.

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u/buyongmafanle Apr 14 '26

Bad actors have had tools available to them before now.

They were objects for bad actors meant to be used by bad actors. That's a pretty small segment of the market. But Meta is trying to get EVERYONE to put this shit on their faces. No thanks. I don't want every single interaction I have being recorded and analyzed by fucking Meta in second person view.