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Facebook is considering adding facial-recognition to smart glasses but wants to solve privacy issues - Daily Mail
Feb 26, 2021 1 min, 14 secs

Facebook is looking at adding facial recognition to its highly anticipated smart glasses that are planned to hit the market next year.

At an all-staff meeting, Facebook Reality Labs director Andrew Bosworth said the company was examining the technology's legal and privacy ramifications, BuzzFeed reports.

 Facebook Reality Labs director Andrew Bosworth said the company was examining the legal and privacy ramifications of adding facial recognition technology to its upcoming smart glasses.

During the company wide meeting, an unnamed employee asked Bosworth about privacy concerns raised by facial recognition, including stalkers.

Bosworth said the company would need to have 'a very public discussion about the pros and cons' of adding facial recognition tools to the device.

Mark Zuckerberg revealed in September that Facebook was partnering with Luxottica Group on a pair of smart Ray-Bans

Mark Zuckerberg revealed in September that Facebook was partnering with Luxottica Group on a pair of smart Ray-Bans. Beyond that, though, the company has been intentionally vague about what it will offer

'These are certainly connected glasses, they are certainly providing a lot of functionality, [but] we're being quite coy about which functionality precisely we are providing,' Bosworth said

'This will be a gradual rollout,' the company said in a blog post, 'but you can find and enable the wake word via our Experimental Features settings—and then say 'Hey Facebook, take a screenshot,' 'Hey Facebook, show me who's online,' 'Hey Facebook, open Supernatural' or any of our other voice commands to get started.' 

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