smart glasses

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…

01 Jun

Apple’s Smart Glasses Delay May Repeat Its Siri Mistake

hightechz.net0 CommentsOpinionsai assistants, apple, meta ray-bans, product strategy, smart glasses

Apple's Smart Glasses Delay Is a Siri-Sized Mistake in the Making Apple has a well-earned reputation for patience. The company sat out the smartphone market for years before the iPhone arrived fully formed. It let others stumble through smartwatch prototypes while it built the Watch into something people actually wanted to wear. That playbook — wait, study, execute — has worked before. But there's a critical difference between strategic patience and strategic absence, and Apple's reported delay of its smart glasses until late 2027 may be a textbook example of the latter. The problem isn't the timeline itself. The problem…