Privacy groups urge Meta to halt 'Name Tag' facial recognition in smart glasses
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More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, are pressuring Meta to stop plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, warning the feature (internally dubbed 'Name Tag') would threaten privacy and civil liberties and could violate biometric-data laws; critics say safeguards and design tweaks won’t resolve the core risks, and call for explicit user consent and stronger privacy protections before any deployment.
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