Brian Barrett
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2,845 appearances
28 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
Brian Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They won't say whether it'll come back.
But that is impact journalism.
So great job, Drew Vandell and everyone else who worked on this story.
The system was designed, and again, this is based on going through the code that was sitting right there in the app, designed to capture faces through Ray-Ban smart glasses, convert them into biometric face prints.
Face print is a word that I wish we didn't have to use just in general.
and then match them against a local database on the user's device.
So in other words, it would clock people's faces and put them into a database and just let it sit there on device.
If it couldn't identify a face, it would just keep it there for future processing, which is to say, keep it in there until if and when you could actually assign a name to it.
So really just capturing everyone's faces that you see.
Oh my God.
Publicly, Meta has said this is something that they're thinking through.
Meta has acknowledged that face recognition is a thing that they are interested in potentially doing.
They said they would first take a very thoughtful approach, quote unquote.
before they did it.
But while they're saying that publicly, the New York Times has reported on internal memos that show that Meta had planned to time the rollout for a, quote, dynamic political environment, waiting until people would be too distracted with other stuff going on to give meaningful pushback to face recognition in their glasses.
How about that?
Well, and tied to that, the direct response we got from Meta was we had...
Meta's VP of communications, Andy Stone, said at first that the feature does not exist.
CTO Andrew Bosworth said that the reporting was, quote, absolutely dishonest.
And then within 24 to 36 hours of those comments, Meta pushed an update that got rid of all the code.
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