Tell Meta: Eyewear, Not Spywear

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Imagine if a stranger walking past you on the sidewalk could know everything about you with one glance: Your name. Your workplace. Your politics. Your health concerns. Even your favorite coffee shop.

This would be a massive invasion of privacy – and it's exactly what Meta plans to enable with their internet-connected glasses. Meta intends to add facial recognition technology to their glasses, enabling anyone wearing the product to immediately and invisibly identify strangers. Although specific details aren't yet public, Meta sits on vast databases, including millions of personal profiles on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, and has long sought to power facial recognition tech with our data.

This technology isn't just a breach of privacy. It paves a path for stalking, harassment, and targeted intimidation. The technology is ripe for abuse from everyday people and government actors alike.

These glasses are dangerous. They must be stopped.

Tell Meta: Your glasses shouldn't know our names. Demand privacy protections today.

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Meta's public policy team

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Imagine if a stranger walking past you on the sidewalk could know everything about you with one glance: Your name. Your workplace. Your politics. Your health concerns. Even your favorite coffee shop.

This technology isn't just a breach of privacy. It paves a path for stalking, harassment, and targeted intimidation. The technology is ripe for abuse from everyday people and government actors alike.

These glasses are dangerous. They must be stopped.

Tell Meta: Your glasses shouldn't know our names. Demand privacy protections today.

The recipients:

Meta's public policy team

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Subject Protect our privacy: No spywear in our eyewear

Meta's plan to add facial recognition features to its glasses would be a disaster for our safety and rights – and I'm calling on you to stop these plans before it's too late.

Facial recognition technology in everyday eyewear presents a serious threat to our privacy and civil liberties. These glasses put every one of us at risk of having our faces and our identities collected without consent and linked to massive dossiers, including intimate details of our lives. This technology is inherently invasive and unethical, and I urge you to drop these plans immediately.

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These concerns are not fringe cases – they are the predictable outcomes of recklessly releasing this type of dystopian technology. I hope you will take these issues seriously and announce that you will not add facial recognition to your glasses.

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