> Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find “the right balance” for a technology that raises privacy and legal concerns.

> Now it wants to bring facial recognition back.

> Meta, Facebook’s parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses, which it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, as soon as this year, according to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions. The feature, internally called “Name Tag,” would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant.

> Meta’s plans could change. The Silicon Valley company has been conferring since early last year about how to release a feature that carries “safety and privacy risks,” according to an internal document viewed by The New York Times.

> The document, from May, described plans to first release Name Tag to attendees of a conference for the blind, which the company did not do last year, before making it available to the general public.

> Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.

archive.is/2026.02.13-151340/n… #BigTech #DataProtection #UserPrivacy #WearableTech #META #RayBanMeta #NameTag #SurveillanceTech #DigitalPrivacy #BiometricData #Privacy #RayBan #blind #Facebook #SiliconValley

Is #Threads even still trying to federate?

✅ They changed their .net domain to .com: mastodon.social/@madeindex/115…

✅ They have not continued federating, it's still a one way road of
Fediverse traffic moving to Threads:
mastodon.social/@madeindex/112…

✅ There haven't been any changes since I can remember & it's always been in "Beta".

✅ The only "change" I have noticed is a spam notification before every! post "Continue sharing to the #Fediverse?"

@JBrickelt963 💙

#Facebook #Meta #Tech #IT #Mastodon

MadeInDex 📰🌎

2026-01-10 14:12:10

Marky Mark still hasn't updated the old Threads.net domain in the #Fediverse to the new Threads.com

Guess his superintelligence wasn't up to the challenge 🤖

On a side note: If #Meta wants a product to be "cool", @zuck should not wear it! 😎

❌ #Demeta now: reddit.com/r/DeMeta

#threads #ai #facebook #it #humor #mastodon #markzuckerberg #profile #joke #threadsnet #threadscom #tech #socialmedia #domain #online #internet #it #update #funny #superintelligence #zuck #artificialintelligence #ki