The Glasses That Know Your Name - Meta's Secret Face Scanner and the End of Public Anonymity
Picture this.
You're sitting in a coffee shop. A stranger walks in wearing a pair of Ray-Ban glasses. They glance in your direction.
Their glasses know your name.
Not because you told them. Not because you agreed to anything. Because their glasses looked at your face, converted it into a biometric signature, and matched it against a database. In under a second. Without a sound. Without your consent.
That is not a hypothetical. That is the feature Meta has been quietly building, and silently shipping, to over 50 million phones.
They call it NameTag.
In this episode, Michael breaks down exactly…
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