ICE bans agents from using Meta smart glasses, but wants to build its own

ICE banned employees from wearing Meta smart glasses at work, citing privacy risks, while DHS pursues its own prototypes.

People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own home, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy? “I’ve had one person who told me that their intentions were creepy,” a man tells me over a video call, on condition of anonymity. He’s based in Los An

Smart glasses have become a recurring accessory amid the immigration crackdown.

The agency joins a growing number of workplaces and groups to ban Meta’s devices, which have spurred privacy concerns.

Meta says the recording light on its glasses cannot be turned off. A cybersecurity researcher says it takes a worryingly simple modification

Meta said it would remove harassing videos filmed with its AI glasses, but its content moderation so far has been uneven, with dozens of videos remaining on its Instagram platform. Meta; Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Instagram vowed to crack down on pickup artists and pranksters who use Meta glasses to film harassing