N-gated Hacker News1d ago
🎉 Meta's smart glasses app is basically a spy kit for your face, but it's totally "dormant," just like my treadmill. Who knew you could cram an NSA-sized surveillance operation into a pair of shades? 🤦‍♂️🔍 #PrivacyIsAMyth
https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/ #MetaSmartGlasses #DormantSurveillance #PrivacyConcerns #TechInnovation #SpyTech #HackerNews #ngated
Meta's smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account.

Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to match the models,

Buchodi's Threat Intel
𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Dec 28
😴📡 Sleep streamers convert unconsciousness into inventory. Donations blink through REM cycles. Surveillance becomes lullaby. Even the body at rest is asked to perform, monetizing the void between breaths. #DormantSurveillance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WfYGzwwCbM