Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military

Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military

We know that ICE wants to deploy eyeglasses with facial recognition that can identify people in real time.

Turns out Meta is prototyping the feature with a Pentagon supplier. (Alternate news story.)

Tags: face recognition, homeland security, identification, military, police, privacy

Posted on June 26, 2026 at 12:40 PM • 1 Comments

no fonzanoons • June 26, 2026 2:34 PM

Surely all those photos of us in FB’s possession in which we are tagged will not be used to train this tool?

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