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One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition from its smart glasses (wired.com)
6 points by greenburger 13 hours ago
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It’s important you read quotes from the internal memo to understand what kind of company Meta is

> The coalition letter comes after internal Meta planning documents suggested that the company wanted to launch the glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because civil society groups would be too busy to protest.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-and-75-organization...

Related:

Meta's smart glasses app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403588