WIRED: Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

“The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sent its own letters to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state enforcers in February urging them to investigate and block Name Tag’s rollout. Real-time face recognition, the group warned, would compound what it called the ‘already serious and apparently unlawful’ privacy risks of the existing Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which can covertly record bystanders with no warning beyond a small light that is easily hidden. People could be identified at protests, places of worship, support groups, and medical clinics, EPIC wrote, ‘destroying the concept of privacy or anonymity in public spaces.'”

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