More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.
The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are reportedly leaving their expensive smart glasses at home.
Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Used To Instantly Dox Strangers In Public, Thanks To AI And Facial Recognition
Harvard students hack together a system to gather intel on strangers to build their trust, then share steps for the public to protect themselves from such technology.
Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses'
Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.
Is Meta Using Disabled People to Promote Its Glasses?
AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims | TechCrunch
The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta's AI assistant.
A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles
Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency that is really encouraging its agents to actively intimidate and terrorize people," one expert said.
EPIC Urges FTC, States to Block Meta’s Facial Recognition Smart Glasses Plan
<p>EPIC has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission and State Attorneys General urging them to quickly investigate and prevent Meta’s plan to add facial recognition and surveillance capabilities to its Ray-Ban Meta glasses. </p>
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.
This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
Meta’s Smart Ray-Ban Glasses Let Me Live in the Moment. But the AI Is Useless.
Ray-Ban Meta glasses let you record life hands-free in style. But weak AI and privacy trade-offs make them more risk than reward for most people.
Envision Glasses
AI-powered smartglasses that articulate everyday visual information into speech, providing independence and possibilities for people who are blind or have low vision.
Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans
Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But in the past year,
Meta’s new AI glasses could have a ‘super-sensing’ mode with facial recognition
Facial recognition on your face.
Mark Zuckerberg says anyone not wearing AI glasses in the future will be at a disadvantage | Fortune
Zuckerberg said immersive smart glasses could bring the idea of the metaverse to fruition.
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home address.
How AI Glasses Are Empowering People With Disabilities
Our AI glasses are empowering people with disabilities to perform daily tasks with greater independence.
