Electronic Frontier Foundation
There are billions of reasons not to turn Meta’s customers into a distributed surveillance machine. This whiplash behavior proves exactly why we cannot rely on the "good will" of Big Tech to protect our digital rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-meta-strips-facial-recognition-code-smart-glasses-app-after-public-outcry
VICTORY: Meta Strips Facial Recognition Code From Smart Glasses App After Public Outcry

Just days after a damning WIRED report exposed that Meta had quietly embedded facial recognition technology (FRT) code into millions of phones, the tech giant has quietly acquiesced in demands to reverse course.Last week, researchers identified code in Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart...

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@eff
somewhere i read, was it here https://contrachrome.com/ . that when alphabet inc takes 5 steps reducing privacy, it might take one step back, then 5 steps reducing and so on.

so meta inc takes one step back, let's have a small party for this mini victory, before meta inc takes 50 steps increasing data collection and surveillance.