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.
Having the guest WiFi off the VPN is smart. I hadn’t thought of that.
I’ll be honest, I only just learned about MLO. Basically what I know is that it automatically switches bands based on needs, and iirc it can use multiple at once. I’ve found that our WiFi speeds on all devices have been faster, and devices that support WiFi 6 and 7 are super fast. I still run the standard 2.4 and 5ghz to swap over to, but the additional MLO SSID has been fun to experiment with. No specific use cases. Just have a lot of streaming and gaming devices that need the bandwidth.