Meta在公众抗议后移除智能眼镜人脸识别代码
SOURCE / EFF-Updates · VICTORY: Meta Strips Facial Recognition Code From Smart Glasses App After Public Outcry
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VICTORY: Meta Strips Facial Recognition Code From Smart Glasses App After Public Outcry
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Español Just days after a damning WIRED report exposed that Meta had quietly embedded facial recognition technology (FRT) code into millions of phones, the tech giant has quietly acquiesced in demands to reverse course. Last week, researchers identified code in Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses, that could convert images of faces into unique biometric signatures to identify strangers in public. EFF’s Threat Lab verified these findings through static analysis, and reminded consumers to think twice before buying or using Meta’s surveillance glasses. Just as quietly as Meta embedded this code, the app’s June 5th app update appears to have quietly removed all those features and systems. Gone is the face-recognition technology, the code meant to trigger “Person recognized” alerts, and the machine learning models and databases designed to detect, digitize, and store the biometric signatures of people users engage with. When WIRED broke the news last week, Meta’s executives immediately went on the defensive. Yet, their actions speak louder than their tweets: less than 48 hours after the public caught wind of their plans, Meta quietly launched an update to scrub nearly all traces of the FRT system from their app. But this quiet deletion of code does not equal a permanent change of heart. Meta previously used face recognition, and stopped only after it faced the legal and financial consequences. Now the company has refused to answer WIRED’s inquiries on whether it plans to bring the NameTag system back in the future, or what they did with any data they may have already collected during internal testing. There are billions of reasons not to turn Meta’s customers into a distributed surveillance machine. This whiplash behavior proves exactly why we cannot rely on the "good will" of Big Tech to protect our digital rights. We need robust, enforceable consumer privacy laws, complete with a private right of action that allows everyday people to sue companies that violate their biometric privacy. While we won this round, Meta's FRT ambitions probably aren't going away. EFF will keep watching.
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据WIRED报道，Meta在其智能眼镜配套应用Meta AI中悄悄嵌入人脸识别技术代码，可将人脸图像转换为唯一生物特征签名以识别陌生人。电子前哨基金会（EFF）通过静态分析验证了该发现。在舆论压力下，Meta于6月5日的应用更新中悄然移除了所有人脸识别功能、触发“人物已识别”警报的代码以及相关机器学习模型和数据库。然而，Meta此前曾因法律和财务后果停止使用人脸识别，此次删除并不代表永久改变。Meta拒绝回答是否计划未来恢复该功能或如何处理内部测试期间收集的数据。EFF强调，不能依赖科技巨头的善意，需要强有力的可执行消费者隐私法律及私人诉讼权。
点评
Meta未经用户同意嵌入人脸识别代码，涉嫌违反生物特征信息处理的知情同意原则，暴露科技巨头在敏感个人信息收集上的合规风险。
法律视角点评
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Meta未经用户同意嵌入人脸识别代码，涉嫌违反生物特征信息处理的知情同意原则，暴露科技巨头在敏感个人信息收集上的合规风险。
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中国法律人应关注《个人信息保护法》第28条对敏感个人信息的单独同意要求，并警惕企业以“技术更新”为名规避合规义务。