The company is anticipating criticism. “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,” according to a paper from Meta’s Reality Labs which the NYT has seen.
Internally, the face recognition project is dubbed Name Tag.
Meta’s current smart glasses take photos, record videos and identify surrounding objects, places and text.
In the UK the processing of biometric data to identify people is very tightly constrained by the law requiring either consent or a legitimate purpose.
In the US, there is little federal law relating to it and it has been left to individual states to take varying approaches to it.
The face recognition feature could be in Meta smart glasses launched this year, says the NYT.
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