Meta, the parent company for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, plans to introduce new face scanning tech while people are distracted by current political turbulence. The Trump-adjacent corporation plans to package the feature in new smart glasses. An internal Meta document seen by the New York Times (NYT) says:
We will 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.
The media outlet provides further info on what the tech would allow:
The feature, internally called “Name Tag,” would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant.
The cynical internal memo likely references the tumult currently sweeping the US amidst the mass criminality carried out by the brownshirts of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Trump’s personal paramilitary goons have been violating laws left and right as they beat and kill their way around the US, under the pretext of an immigration crackdown.
ICE have already made extensive use of face scanning tech. Meta’s glasses would represent another privacy violating move, capturing massive amounts of personal data which may ultimately find its way into the hands of an authoritarian state. Meta has form when it comes to handing over info about customers to governments.
Ban all American spyware. All are owned by criminals and pedophiles
I just got rid of an eero router from my home and switched to a glinet Flint 3e. No more cloud connectivity and AWS connections, plus this new router is like 100x faster. The Ring doorbell camera is next. I’m stripping my home of any and all of this spyware dog shit.
I have a Flint 2 which has been great. Running OpenWRT outta the box is awesome, and the whole-house VPN I’ve applied (sus and cranky devices on a guest network) is super convenient.
I used to run a WRT54G back in the day with the hacked firmware on it, and this new router feels like a modern throwback to that. I love having control again. I’ve got a bunch of devices using the MLO WiFi feature and it’s stupid fast.
What VPN do you use? I have Mullvad configured on it, but some websites don’t like it, so I have to be careful with it blocking important stuff on work computers.
Huh, hadn’t heard about MLO before, any use cases you’ve found particularly compelling? No sweat if you don’t want to elaborate much more, I’m honestly not sure how wise it is to be posting these kinds of details in the first place lol.
I use Mullvad too, with similar workarounds needed. Though I actually run an entirely distinct Internet connection, separate account and provider, for all work devices. It’s an extra expense in an era where I’d really like to find less of those, but the peace of mind from that kind of strong separation, with zero ongoing effort, is second to none.
I just keep the guest wifi un-VPN’ed and pop over to that (or similar) when something is having issues with Mullvad. It’s not perfect but it’s infrequent enough and meets my needs mostly. I used to play exit node whack-a-mole but rarely need to switch that these days.
Yea I’m agreeing with this. I think we’re at a point that every country needs to band together and block these sites. I’m not seeing any benefit to having these as they are
Im coming back because I had another thought. Why don’t we focus on marketable protests like this online rather than trying to get people in the streets?
Why not both?
Shit, so anyone wearing these glasses is compromising everyone they come into contact with, not just to data brokers, but by extension to the us government, and everyone else the data brokers sell the information to.
This is something the federal government actually should be regulating under interstate commerce, companies grabbing personal information of groups that didn’t consent is hardly fair, not the least when the information is being used commercially and to the detriment of people.
I guess that is why previous google glasses wearers were accosted and chased out of establishments, they didn’t want a corporate spy sending everyone’s likeness to headquarters and data banks.
This is something the federal government actually should be regulating under interstate commerce
They should. Instead they’re not only not doing that, but they’re writing executive orders that make it illegal for states to do exactly that.
Not only that, when the bubble pops, which it seems like it’s going to as they’ve no way to make back the money they are investing, the federal government will bail them out I fear, and make them even more beholden to our politicians and their pet projects.
Man I sure hope the gov sees the writing on the wall and just lets it die. There’s no “bailing out” a company that has no path to profitability. At least the auto and housing industries existed for hundreds of years prior.
Yeah think about it, they would hardly lose any jobs, the only people that will lose out will be investors, bond holders, corporations that signed contracts with them maybe. They would have to play on the few lost jobs it could cause, even those though, the chip makers will still have work, they will just have to switch back to making chips for computers, which we need to be cheaper as AI has led to a derth of computer chips and I presume skyrocketing prices. So the chip makers will be fine.
They really don’t have an argument that I can see to bail them out, they will anyway, but it will be even more corrupt and blatant than what came before.
But maybe they can keep it going for a long time, especially with the fed about to be controlled by the executive and zero interest rates indefinitely. I mean look at Tesla, the actual value means nothing, apparently. It seems like it has to pop eventually, but I think the knowledge that the goverrnment will bail them out has led to less volatility as investors aren’t so quick to jump ship.
Privatized gains, and socialized losses. The president is basically a communist. That is what I’m going with.
Anyone using these apps at this point are fucked.
Anyone
using these appsat this point are fucked.
wasnt epstein wishing he could see someones aura with an app
I want to add, I read once in the Intercept about a vulnerability in whatsapp, I don’t know what the article is referencing yet, but it sounds like they built a backdoor for them, which frankly we should have presumed.
But even without that, messages sent within a country or bloc where they control all the telecommunications can identify whom is sending to whom by seeing when an encrypted message is sent and immediately received. I would not use any american tech with the assumption it’s as secure as it’s thought to be. Presume it’s compromised with backdoors.
