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Name Tag, as revealed in February by The New York Times, would work through the artificial intelligence assistant built into Meta's smart glasses, allowing wearers to pull up information about people in their field of view. Engineers have reportedly been weighing two versions of the feature: one that would only identify people the wearer is already connected to on a Meta platform, and a broader version that could recognize anyone with a public account on a Meta service such as Instagram.
Creeps will instantly use it to go to where women are and find their accounts.
Not to mention any woman that has to work a customer facing job.
This would suck for men too tho, it would suck for everyone.
But it might be what it finally takes to get the dumb masses off Meta platforms. There's so many other reasons anyways, but idiots just can't delete their Instas
Fuckers played WatchDogs and thought what a great idea.
This is how we all start dressing like daft punk. Face masks in public.
I already do
In the first case the device would still have to identify people not connected to the wearer to determine if they are connected or not. That seems like it would make it much easier to bypass and tag strangers anyway.
quite literally the worst and most sociopathic invention possible
This sort of item should be illegal.
I saw some fucking idiot with these on at a show a few months ago and I had to exert a lot of control not to yank them off her face and stomp on them.
Nobody wants to be recorded secretly. Especially not at a show. That’s a gross invasion of privacy - and, in fact, illegal in some jurisdictions (two-party consent laws for recordings).
Less control next time please, dunno how old you are but that's exactly the human immune response that rid us of Google Glass. Early beta testers consistently got rocked whenever they wore them outside and the project went nowhere. I'm too old now and don't get out enough but pray the kids are up to rejecting round 2
I'm already that dick who calls everyone out if they're recording or taking pictures on their phone during the show, so I am definitely comfortable calling out these jerks.
That's Meta's whole intention with these.
...in pursuit of what?
Data?
Wouldn't be surprised if there are some Palantir x Meta smart glasses in the pipeline.
Pre-order now and get one free year of Flock Together—the only personal security service that combines cutting-edge facial recognition technology with Persona integration to provide real-time risk assessments of your fellow countrymen based on their ~~social~~ credit score, public records, and data broker profile.
I assume Zuck is putting his fingers in his ears and mechanically screeching loudly to drown out such warnings
making a mechanical scream similar to the body snatchers people in tha tmovie.
More than 70 civil liberties, domestic violence, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+, labor, and immigrant advocacy organizations are demanding that Meta abandon plans to deploy face recognition on its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, warning that the feature—reportedly known inside the company as “Name Tag”—would hand stalkers, abusers, and federal agents the ability to silently identify strangers in public... In the May 2025 memo from Meta’s Reality Labs that the Times obtained, Meta reportedly wrote that it would launch “during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
If I ever see anyone with them and they look in my direction they will be turned into monicals.
Sounds like you need to talk to your local government officials about having them banned in your area, otherwise you are going to spend a lot of time in jail/prison. Glasses didn't take off when Google did them because the tech wasn't there yet 10 years ago. Meta is launching theirs now, Apple will be launching multiple next year, which means Google may be launching them again depending on the success Apple and Meta see.
As far as laws go in the U.S. It is generally accepted that if you leave your property, you can be recorded. Hence Ring doorbells, cameras in and outside every store, on the street lights, etc. I don't care for it, but privacy (in public) doesn't exist anymore.
them because the tech wasn't there yet 10 years ago.
That's not true. They didn't take off because they boiled the frog too fast. They were rejected by polite society. That society is gone.
Palatable effort, fellow keyboard warrior!
I really wanted to read harm not arm.
just like the og google glasses it ended used for PORN.
I have to buy new glasses because I get a lot of looks in my black rimmed glasses even though the frames are too thin, I doubt people are paying attention. I have some new glasses on order just for peace of mind, fuck you Meta.
Hell, they probably consider that a plus.
Well yeah look who made them
What? They didn’t learn this the first time? Yes the glasses are a cool idea but we need to be more responsible.
I don't even get why anyone thinks they are cool. They don't even have displays in them. I would understand for smart glasses with no cameras, but the ability to display a HUD with navigation, music info, text messages, etc.
That's capitalism: they have to please their shareholders.
If it makes money then nothing else counts. Go american capitalism! /s