WF-WUEQTC
Meta Scraped User Photos for Secret Smart-Glasses Tech, Class Action Claims - The SOFX Report
Meta harvested user photographs and created biometric faceprints to enable a smart-glasses system that could identify strangers in public without consent.
- Date it happened
- 2021-09-04
- Organisation involved
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Product, system or model
- NameTag
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