"Last August, 404 Media reported that at a June immigration raid outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles, a Customs and Border Protection agent was seen wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban AI smart glasses, which can record video and use artificial intelligence to pull up real-time data.
Concerned about the privacy implications, I filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a wide range of records about CBP agents’ use of smart glasses, including Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses, during immigration raids.
Despite the photographic evidence, CBP told me that it had no records responsive to my request.
A recent scoop by Ken Klippenstein shows the agency was almost certainly lying, or playing a delusional game of semantics to avoid honestly responding to the request.
Klippenstein reports that a budget document shows the Department of Homeland Security is currently developing its own smart glasses for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies. These so-called ICE glasses will enable agents to surveil all Americans wherever they encounter them, and capture their biometric data without their consent or a warrant (and possibly store this data in a growing, centralized database that could be easily abused).
Needless to say, FPF has filed additional FOIA requests about these surveillance tools, and we will report what we learn."
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/hate-meta-glasses-wait-until-you-hear-about-ice-glasses/
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