Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
So if I’m getting this right they do keep biometrics from people who have never agreed to anything, but only on smartglassers’ devices and they are not transmitting them. Yet?
Still a huge invasion of privacy. Nobody stores data just to be left “pending” in a random folder. Yeah it’s very similar to when they made pseudo-profiles from tagged people on facebook pics. Was not even aware they were eventually and succesfully sued for it.
No no, from the full article it seems they are building (again) a database of people’s biometrics. They are kept in the app, but from an early analysis it looks like there is a client-server mechanism to “pull” biometric information to your phone and start recognizing people with your glasses. I guess only time will tell how they will implement it, and if there will be enough pressure again to have them remove this terrible functionality.
So if I’m getting this right they do keep biometrics from people who have never agreed to anything, but only on smartglassers’ devices and they are not transmitting them. Yet?
Still a huge invasion of privacy. Nobody stores data just to be left “pending” in a random folder. Yeah it’s very similar to when they made pseudo-profiles from tagged people on facebook pics. Was not even aware they were eventually and succesfully sued for it.
No no, from the full article it seems they are building (again) a database of people’s biometrics. They are kept in the app, but from an early analysis it looks like there is a client-server mechanism to “pull” biometric information to your phone and start recognizing people with your glasses. I guess only time will tell how they will implement it, and if there will be enough pressure again to have them remove this terrible functionality.