Meta is testing smart glass facial recognition tech that’s also used by police and military: Report

An investigative report reveals that Meta licensed face recognition from Rank One, a Pentagon contractor, and built a system called NameTag into an app on 50 million phones before deleting it.The ...
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...

Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.