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.
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.
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?