The Verge – Anyone else notice that ICE isn’t worried about getting doxed by Meta? – “There’s never been a better time to add facial recognition to everything! The public at large is gradually becoming numb to our Palantirized surveillance state, and American communities are responding to the militarization of federal law enforcement with their own increasingly intricate webs of sousveillance. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are sleek, unobtrusive wearables with front-facing cameras and a passthrough display in the right lens that can show maps, texts, social media posts, and more. Name Tag is a new feature that uses facial recognition to identify people you see in real life through the glasses. Perhaps the glasses would have sounded way too creepy in the past; perhaps they still sound creepy now. But who has the energy to complain? A dangerously mercurial president, the blatant profiteering and corporate give-and-take, the expansive use of government surveillance, a supine Fourth Estate owned by billionaires, the rampant tyranny of ICE: These are the best preconditions to introduce Name Tag, brought to you by Meta and Ray-Ban. After months and months of ceaseless whining about the doxxing of ICE agents, there hasn’t been a single peep from Attorney General Pam Bondi about the future of facial recognition in Meta glasses. If frictionless facial recognition becomes commonplace, theoretically, ICE is vulnerable to the technology as well. But the government is remarkably complacent on this front. Maybe it thinks that Meta is at the beck and call of Washington, DC, and will change its product to suit the needs of ICE. Maybe the screaming over “doxxing” was never actually about doxxing. Or maybe a little bit of both?…”

See also Apple Insider: “Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta’s AI and an army of employees. Smart glasses are a trendy item that relies on cameras to feed AI models and to answer queries. However, while this is viewed as a fun feature by many and a way to film their life in a hands-free way, it’s still a massive privacy issue if not used correctly. An investigation by Svenska Dagbladet on February 27 looked into the workings of the Meta Ray-Ban partnership and its AI glasses. It found that the footage is collected and seen by many eyes, including human trainers of AI. Anonymous sources from a company in Nairobi, Kenya revealed that they have seen footage of people at their most private and vulnerable — times when the users of Meta’s smart glasses would rather not have the cameras rolling…”