Facebook weighs adding facial recognition to smart glasses https://t.co/OPNgngiOTY pic.twitter.com/5mp5CdgtVn

— New York Post (@nypost) February 26, 2021

Facebook might put facial-recognition tech in its smart glasses, due to launch this year — but only if it can ensure 'authority structures' can't abuse user privacy https://t.co/zp54ERxGh5

— Tech Insider (@TechInsider) February 26, 2021

Boz wants a public convo on pros/cons of AR facial recognition:
How do people give consent to be ID'd based on spatial context?
Is it recorded on a server?
What about Third-Party doctrine/Fourth Amendment implications for private spaces?
See @CodedBias doc for how it's gone wrong https://t.co/oK4RsXj2ax

— Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) February 26, 2021

I can see where there is a use case to be made for people suffering from conditions that affect the ability to recognize faces, but if that is really the only positive use case, maybe it should be by prescription so the bad use cases don't run amok for the small upside.

— Lisa Abeyta (@LisaAbeyta) February 25, 2021

Flashback: In 2013, Google banned apps for Glass that used facial recognition, under pressure from members of Congress. https://t.co/hI7V8wfOFL https://t.co/eiFxNh8qfv

— Jeff Bercovici (@jeffbercovici) February 25, 2021

In our meeting today I specifically said the future product would be fine without it but there were some nice use cases if it could be done in a way the public and regulators were comfortable with.

— Boz (@boztank) February 25, 2021

FB has one of the world's largest user-uploaded photo databases, and has been working on FR for years. That tech powers features like suggested tags. Deploying it on smart glasses to help ppl recognize unknown faces in the real world would be totally new. https://t.co/DeOIBXgG0T

— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) February 25, 2021

At today's Facebook companywide meeting, Facebook execs discussed the possibility of adding facial recognition to its upcoming smart glasses product after one employee brought up concerns about "real world harm" including "stalkers." https://t.co/DeOIBXgG0T

— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) February 25, 2021

Facebook's Making a Good Case Why You Should Never Wear Its Smart Glasses https://t.co/aBDUWSopJG pic.twitter.com/VtwA2h8Eda

— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) February 26, 2021

Facebook is considering facial recognition for its AR glasses. Of course it is. There are a lot of reasons to do that, and a ton not to as well. @boztank and @KavyaPearlman should work together to figure out how to do cool social stuff without the freaky factor. https://t.co/jhtOk6Imiy

— Scoble (@Scobleizer) February 25, 2021

I fear that if Facebook goes down this path that it could sink the entirety of AR. Because nearly every user will assume that all AR headsets have facial recognition even if they don't. https://t.co/k0yEr7SCVz

— Anshel Sag (@anshelsag) February 26, 2021

I gotta say.... obvious surveillance state thing aside, here me out... this... is awesome? Like just on a pure "wow this is cool technology" way, right? Cmon you gotta admit https://t.co/yHOrfpVRvV

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) February 25, 2021

We’ve been through this. Haven’t we? Andrew Bosworth shouldn’t be anywhere near any business which involves heightened privacy concerns. Whether for the ears or the eyes. https://t.co/mci2E4l79t

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) February 26, 2021

I‘ve longed for a good set of AR glasses since Magic Leap put out their first ad. I would never buy a pair that’s armed with FRT. Your product will undoubtedly become a policing tool. Please, just don’t. It would be worse than Clearview for civil liberties, especially for POC.

— Liz O’Sullivan (@lizjosullivan) February 25, 2021

The only sensible course of action is for the government to ban facial recognition technology. It's a bad technology and with very few exceptions (like unlocking a phone) there are huge and obvious downsides to any way it can be used. https://t.co/QRjcm3kWsw

— draglikepull (@draglikepull) February 26, 2021

This continues to be Facebook's behavior - not fixing the issues but treat it is as a PR problem.

There are fundamental quick simple steps the @oculus team could do that they refuse to do.

A privacy statement is not privacy. https://t.co/zmwNeRhqFU pic.twitter.com/P7PyFe3Xlu

— Chet Faliszek (@chetfaliszek) February 26, 2021

Andrew Bosworth, who famously said "We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified…Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools" is now in charge of a product that can put people's lives at risk. https://t.co/YKyEGHMmJd

— Daniel Malmer (@danielmalmer) February 26, 2021

We’ve been open about our efforts to build AR glasses and are still in the early stages. Face recognition is a hugely controversial topic and for good reason and I was speaking about was how we are going to have to have a very public discussion about the pros and cons. (1/2) https://t.co/PFNSoBpcni

— Boz (@boztank) February 25, 2021

When Facebook makes distinctions about “real world harm,” I want to know what other kind of harm is there? https://t.co/XAtKrgsYCt

— Joan Donovan, PhD ? (@BostonJoan) February 26, 2021

They are literally following the script of The Circle. I just can’t. FB STOP. @hartzog @neilmrichards @ariezrawaldman @imran_malek https://t.co/xHlofwnwHe

— Danielle Citron (@daniellecitron) February 26, 2021

Earlier this week a Facebook exec spoke on a public forum about how difficult it was that someone was reporting out internal meetings in real time. If that reporting didn't happen, the public wouldn't know about things like this. https://t.co/DeOIBXgG0T

— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) February 25, 2021

This is a super important conversation for us to be having as a society. As with other issues, the tech is coming whether we begin to process it and set norms or not. https://t.co/hDgYLlt2fS

— Ina Fried (@inafried) February 25, 2021

May be more context in the full meeting, but that the comments from Facebook in here thinking about deploying facial recognition in its smart glasses are focused somewhat on the legality, and not the ethics, of facial recognition is concerning https://t.co/ORXpFBg4ny

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) February 25, 2021

Hmmm
Facebook is considering putting facial recognition into its upcoming smart glasses, weighing up the legal - and hopefully the social - issues
Whaddya think?https://t.co/M3zxnU92cZ

— Ross Dawson (@rossdawson) February 26, 2021

Facial recognition still doesn't work on Black people, right?

— Dion Rabouin ?? (@DionRabouin) February 25, 2021

Back in 2015/16, Facebook employees built a facial recognition app that told them someone's name if they pointed their phone camera at their face. https://t.co/M1CjHPMxXRhttps://t.co/JvxJTqiBHm

— Rob Price (@robaeprice) February 25, 2021

#regulateFacebook https://t.co/4Ta0AstczM

— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) February 25, 2021

Facebook doesn't seem to mind that facial recognition glasses would endanger women | @ArwaM https://t.co/Kn8PK4kjpX

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) February 27, 2021