Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

Furious? Cuckerberg was spying on us and THEY are furious?? Get fucked assholes!

The irony of calling out Wired for "Dishonest Reporting tm" while saying this nonsense in your leaked memo is staggering:

But this isn't the first time in recent months that NameTag has been in the news. In February, the New York Times reported on an internal Meta memo in which Meta discussed plans to install NameTag into its smart glasses. In the striking memo, the tech giant noted that the ethically-fraught feature should ideally be launched "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."

So you know this feature is controversial, you absolutely do plan to release it to the public according to your own internal memos, and you have the nerve to call out a publication for explaining what the feature is and why it's bad before they explain that it's not currently implemented and you claim it won't be. Sloppy work, guys.

It makes me delighted that meta-execs are furious. Gotta savor those bits of Shadenfreude Joy!

Yes we're beta testing this feature but we pinky promise, swearsies that we're never going to actually use it even though we're beta testing it to make sure it works.

And yet, according to the company's executives, it's "dishonest" to inform the public about a piece of unreleased tech that Meta has chosen to incorporate into a consumer product.

Meta referred to the discovery as "sensational" and characterized NameTag as exploratory. "We've said before we're exploring these types of features, and what you're seeing is just evidence of that exploration," the company said in a statement to Wired. "Nothing has shipped to consumers and no final decision has been made on what to do here, if anything. If we do decide to roll something out, we will take a and do so with full transparency. One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database."

"It's not until [paragraph] four that Wired says this feature is 'not enabled,'" declared Meta spokesperson and VP of communications Andy Stone. "And then takes until [paragraph] 16 for Wired to reflect that Meta has no existing plans and this is exploratory. And not until [paragraph] ten does Wired quote its own expert saying the feature is not 'exposed to consumers.'"

"This is more than shoddy reporting, it's intellectually dishonest," Stone continued. "Pure advocacy-driven click bait."

The fact that you're "exploring" this tech at all is deeply concerning. You've done everything possible to erode the trust of the public so why would anyone believe you would do it "thoughtfully"?

You know, it's sad that we get this sort of deal. When I was kid, I wanted cool glasses that you see in movies where it could highlight people, see their conversations, translate in real time, see maps, etc.

Augmented Reality has so much potential as tools for everyone.

But now, as adult I know it's just surveillance tools. Fuck corporations.

It's pretty easy to not get caught surveiling customers.

All you have to do is... Not surveil customers.

Last week, Wired reported that Meta discreetly moved to infuse facial recognition tech into its popular smart glasses, as evidenced by a piece of code discovered in the Meta AI app by the magazine's journalists. The unreleased feature, internally dubbed "NameTag," would "transform faces captured by Meta's glasses into unique biometric signatures, commonly known as faceprints, and check each one against faceprints stored on the user's phone — a database that's currently configured to receive updates from Meta," as Wired put it.

Though it's not yet actively available for consumers.

Try not being evil then if you’re mad about being caught.

One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database

… because of course we aren’t. We already have one and it’s AMAZING.

If it’s not enabled and “exploratory”, then why the fuck did you deploy it, fuckface?

Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses

Meta and all the people they're paying to influence entire countries can fuck right off

If that feature gets activated one day, will taking down and destroying someones Smart Glasses count as self-defence?

So let me get this straight. They are not exposing it to consumers. Everyone is being explicit that it is NOT exposed to CONSUMERS. Doesn't that leave it open to being exposed to non-consumer entities? Things like Meta internally and government entities are non-consumer entities. I believe other businesses could be construed as non-consumer entities as well. So they could easily NEVER expose this to the end users and still make bank selling the data to brokers, government agencies, or private surveillance companies like Palentier or Flock.

Cool cool cool... Good to know.

"This is more than shoddy reporting, it's intellectually dishonest," Stone continued. "Pure advocacy-driven click bait."

Maybe don't be evil pieces of shit for, what, a decade (at least since it's been widely covered)? That might help generate goodwill.

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/meta-furious-over-bombshell-smart-151912446.html clean(er)

Corporations have emotions?

Wahhhh

Keep crying, meta execs.

If everything goes wrong for you from here out and you go totally broke, your family takes everything, your friends all betray you, and you get hauled and sent to wise than CECOT conditions, I would STILL laugh at you and mock you.

If I can help that happen I would. I want you to all an hero. But lemme get it on video. Ex billionaire death footage would probably be better than porn.

Keep on streisanding fuckerberg

Fuck Zucc, forever.