Facebook's Making a Good Case Why You Should Never Wear Its Smart Glasses - Gizmodo

Everyone and their mother is supposedly building a pair of smart glasses now, Facebook included.

However, a BuzzFeed News report notes that apparently, Facebook is thinking about building facial recognition into its forthcoming pair of AR glasses.

In an internal meeting, Andrew Bosworth, Facebook’s vice president of augmented and virtual reality, said that the social media giant was considering whether it had the legal capacity to include facial recognition features in its AR glasses.

For starters, it’s not encouraging that the comments seem to focus on the legality of whether facial recognition should be included on these AR smart glasses, rather than the ethical implications.

That said, it isn’t a given that Facebook will ultimately include facial recognition in its smart glasses.

If Facebook wants to do this the right way, it will release a pair of smart glasses that solve consumers’ problems—not a pair that immediately knocks over an entire barrel of worms