ICE wants facial recognition glasses that can identify people in real time. Now Meta is prototyping the same idea — and they’re doing it with a Pentagon supplier.
Bruce Schneier flagged this one, and it’s worth paying attention. Meta is reportedly working on facial recognition features for its smart glasses, targeting law enforcement and military use cases. The glasses would essentially give officers the ability to scan a crowd and pull up identities on the fly.
We’ve seen ICE explore similar tech before — remember the surveillance glasses story from Futurism? Meta’s version would be built into their smart glasses platform, making it more mainstream and, arguably, more concerning.
The privacy implications are enormous. Facial recognition in the hands of law enforcement is already controversial. Putting it in consumer-grade glasses that could be widely deployed? That’s a whole different conversation.
Meta hasn’t made any public announcements about this. The news comes from reporting by Wired and Gizmodo, citing sources familiar with the prototyping efforts.
