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Today, META is returning to the well of facial recognition, this time with the Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses.

Yeah, we'll talk all about it.

I'm Jason Howell.

I'm Windwit Dow.

Let's start with what you need to know with a big story.

Yes, so META is planning to add a name tag facial recognition feature to its Rayband smart glasses later this year.

This is according to four people involved with the plans who spoke with the New York

Times about those plans. You can find the article on New York Times right now. The feature would

allow wearers of the Rayban smart glasses to identify people to pull up information about them

through Meta's AI assistant while, of course, looking through

and wearing those lenses. Those internal documents, there are internal documents anyways that

reveal that meta executives were noting that the current U.S. political environment could

actually divert the attention of privacy advocates from the rollout of such a

feature. And if this sounds at all familiar, it's because meta shut down Facebook's earlier

facial recognition photo tagging system somewhere around like five years ago, if you remember

after legal and privacy backlash,

that included multi-billion dollar settlements in Illinois and Texas over collecting facial

data without permission. Now, META appears to be betting that the current political landscape

might align more closely with the technology effort this time around. And yeah, this is, this is a really

interesting story. I've got a few different minds about this. But before we dive in, like,

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