Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is developing plans to incorporate facial recognition technology into the smart glasses it produces with Ray Ban and Oakley.
The prospective upgrade, however, is far from a done deal. The New York Times reports that Meta is concerned about “safety and privacy risks,” according to a document that circulated within the company last spring. The internal memo suggested introducing Name Tag at a conference for the blind before taking advantage of the current political tumult to ship the upgraded smart glasses to a wider audience.
“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,” said the internal update by Meta’s Reality Labs.