Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch
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There's never been a better time to add facial recognition to everything! The public at large is gradually becoming numb to our Palantirized surveillance state, and American communities are responding to the militarization of federal law enforcement with their own increasingly intricate webs of sousveillance.
The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are sleek, unobtrusive wearables with front-facing cameras and a passthrough display in the right lens that can show maps, texts, social media posts, and more. Name Tag is a new feature that uses facial recognition to identify people you see in real life through the glasses. Perhaps the glasses would have soun …
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Policy Tech Meta Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch Anyone else notice that ICE isn’t worried about getting doxed by Meta? by Sarah Jeong Mar 1, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images, Meta Policy Tech Meta Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch Anyone else notice that ICE isn’t worried about getting doxed by Meta? by Sarah Jeong Mar 1, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC Sarah Jeong is a features editor who publishes award-winning stories about law, tech, and internet subcultures. A journalist trained as a lawyer, she has been writing about tech for 10 years. There’s never been a better time to add facial recognition to everything! The public at large is gradually becoming numb to our Palantirized surveillance state, and American communities are responding to the militarization of federal law enforcement with their own increasingly intricate webs of sousveillance. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are sleek, unobtrusive wearables with front-facing cameras and a passthrough display in the right lens that can show maps, texts, social media posts, and more. Name Tag is a new feature that uses facial recognition to identify people you see in real life through the glasses. Perhaps the glasses would have sounded way too creepy in the past; perhaps they still sound creepy now. But who has the energy to complain? A dangerously mercurial president, the blatant profiteering and corporate give-and-take, the expansive use of government surveillance, a supine Fourth Estate owned by billionaires, the rampant tyranny of ICE: These are the best preconditions to introduce Name Tag, brought to you by Meta and Ray-Ban. After months and months of ceaseless whining about the doxxing of ICE agents , there hasn’t been a single peep from Attorney General Pam Bondi about the future of facial recognition in Meta glasses. If frictionless facial recognition becomes commonplace, theoretically, ICE is vulnerable to the technology as well. But the gover...
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