Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
I can’t for the life of me imagine that this is legal. Maybe in the U.S., since the legal system there is so completely broken, but in Europe, the mass surveillance of millions of people by a private company seems likely to be a criminal offense.
The latest attempt at chatcontroll was rejected as recently as April 3 mainly due to massive public opposition. They will try again, and someday they will succeed if too many people succumb to defeatism.
So it’s pretty counterproductive to say that it wouldn’t make any sense anyway, because that’s not the case.
So Meta wants its own army of unsuspecting spies?
I can’t for the life of me imagine that this is legal. Maybe in the U.S., since the legal system there is so completely broken, but in Europe, the mass surveillance of millions of people by a private company seems likely to be a criminal offense.
The EU leadership surrendered to tech after the prez of the US got back in.
They are busy doing their biddng, chatcotrol and all that rot.
The latest attempt at chatcontroll was rejected as recently as April 3 mainly due to massive public opposition. They will try again, and someday they will succeed if too many people succumb to defeatism.
So it’s pretty counterproductive to say that it wouldn’t make any sense anyway, because that’s not the case.
They are trying, over and over, to take the trojan horse behind the walls of liberal democracy.