“'We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attac...
“'We will launch 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,' according to the document from Meta's Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses. Facial recognition technology has long raised civil liberty and privacy concerns for its potential use by governments to monitor citizens and suppress dissent, by corporations to track unwitting customers or by creeps at bars. Some cities and states have restricted or banned use of the technology by the police over concerns about its accuracy. Democratic lawmakers recently asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop using facial recognition technology on American streets.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html