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17 Aug

Smart Glasses Ban vs. Always-On Recording Leak

hightechz.net0 CommentsSecurityai governance, meta, privacy regulation, smart glasses, wearable tech

We're Banning Yesterday's Smart Glasses While Tomorrow's Record Everything New York just became the first state to ban smart glasses from its courthouses. Meanwhile, Meta is reportedly building always-on smart glasses that record audio and photos continuously. These two stories broke within days of each other—and that collision tells you everything you need to know about why privacy regulation for wearable tech is already failing. We're not saying the New York ban is wrong. But we are saying it's a textbook example of legislatures playing catch-up to last year's anxiety while next year's threat ships to consumers unregulated. Photo by…

06 Aug

Meta’s AI Ad Pipeline and CSAM: Detection Isn’t Enough

hightechz.net0 CommentsAIai safety, child protection, content moderation, meta, platform accountability

Meta's AI Content Pipeline Became a CSAM Vector—And 'We Took It Down' Isn't Enough Last week, researchers identified more than 50 advertisements containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material running across Meta's platforms—Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads. Per Wired, some of these ads ran as recently as this week. This isn't a moderation gap. It's evidence of a systemic failure in how Meta's automated content pipelines handle the most severe category of harm, and it raises a question that Meta's leadership still hasn't answered: Can generative AI ad tools coexist with meaningful safeguards, or are we choosing convenience over child safety?…

17 Jun

Meta’s Smart Glasses Could Become Cops’ Best Tool

hightechz.net0 CommentsSecurityar wearables, facial recognition, meta, privacy, smart glasses, surveillance

Your Next Glasses Might Be a Cop's Best Informant Meta is testing facial recognition software on consumer smart glasses—the kind used by police and the military. This isn't speculation or a privacy advocate's nightmare scenario. It's happening quietly right now, with consumer devices. And it's the clearest signal yet that the smart glasses race isn't about helping you answer emails hands-free or finding that restaurant you half-remembered. It's about building the world's most intimate surveillance network—and we're being asked to fund it with our eyeballs. The timing matters. As Qualcomm rolls out more powerful chips designed specifically to power next-generation…

05 Jun

Meta’s Hidden Facial Recognition: Surveillance by Stealth

hightechz.net0 CommentsSecurityai, facial recognition, meta, privacy, smart glasses, surveillance

Meta's Hidden Face Scanner: Surveillance Shipped Before Consent You don't need a leaked memo or a whistleblower to spot where the surveillance industry is headed. You just need to know where to look. Researchers found code for an unreleased facial recognition feature buried in Meta's AI app, sitting dormant among the live features most users interact with daily. Meanwhile, on the hardware side, the company has already shipped facial recognition capability on its Ray-Ban smart glasses. This isn't a conspiracy theory playing out in congressional testimony years from now—it's happening in plain code, right now, before anyone outside Meta decided…