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Over 70 civil liberties groups, led by the ACLU, warned Meta against adding facial recognition to smart glasses, citing risks to strangers in public spaces.
More than 70 civil liberties groups, led by the ACLU, are pushing back hard on Meta's reported plan to add facial recognition to its smart glasses. The core problem is invisibility: ordinary-looking glasses can scan and identify a stranger on the street with no light, no sound, and no warning to the person being scanned. Stalkers and scammers would get a tool that turns any public space into a searchable database of faces.
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