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Meta pauses its plan to charge a subscription for the Conversation Focus feature on its smart glasses after user backlash, though it still intends to introduce subscription fees for some premium features.
Meta is testing an always-on 'super sensing' mode for next-generation Ray-Ban glasses that could keep cameras and sensors active for hours, and Mark Zuckerberg has questioned whether the recording LED should stay off, raising significant privacy concerns.
The Verge's wearables columnist analyzes how Netflix's 'A Man on the Inside' inadvertently highlights the cultural privacy issues with smart glasses, as Meta continues to release new models and faces public backlash labeling them as surveillance tools.
Meta is working with Rank One Computing, a Pentagon supplier known for surveillance tools, to prototype face recognition for its smart glasses, raising concerns about the convergence of military-grade surveillance and consumer technology.