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Meta is facing a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the tech giant of illegally extracting biometric data from Facebook and Instagram photographs to develop facial recognition technology connected to its controversial smart glasses.

The lawsuit, brought by families in Illinois and California, alleges Meta created biometric “faceprints” from publicly available social media photographs as part of work on a facial recognition feature known as “NameTag.”

The allegations add to mounting privacy concerns surrounding Meta’s camera-equipped smart glasses.

The wearable devices, often referred to as “pervert glasses,” have already faced criticism over their ability to discreetly record people in public.

Meta denies the allegations and says the facial recognition feature has not been released to consumers.

“We’ve been transparent about how we use people’s information to build and improve our AI products,” a Meta spokesperson told Wired.

“As for NameTags, nothing has shipped to consumers, and no final decision has been made on what to do here, if anything.”

The company called the lawsuit “without merit” and said it “misrepresents our work.”

Lawsuit Alleges Meta Created Biometric ‘Faceprints’

The controversy intensified in June after Wired reported that facial recognition code had been discovered in software associated with Meta’s smart glasses.

The technology, referred to as “NameTag,” raised the prospect of glasses capable of identifying people encountered in public by comparing their faces with biometric information linked to social media profiles.

Meta initially pushed back strongly against reporting that it intended to release such technology.

Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth called Wired’s reporting “absolutely dishonest.”

But days later, Bosworth publicly discussed how such a system could potentially operate and described it as a “great feature.”

The proposed class action now alleges that the underlying facial recognition technology was built using photographs uploaded to Meta’s social media platforms.

According to Wired, biometric signatures described as “faceprints” appeared in code associated with the AI companion application used by Meta’s smart glasses.

A Meta patent also described technology capable of matching biometric signatures against profile photographs.

The plaintiffs allege Meta extracted those signatures from publicly available Facebook and Instagram profiles without legally sufficient consent.

Meta maintains that no NameTag product has been released and says no final decision has been made about whether such a feature will ever reach consumers.

AI Training Faces New Privacy Questions

The lawsuit also targets Meta’s broader artificial intelligence development.

Meta’s Emu image-generation system was trained using a vast collection of user-uploaded images and text, and the plaintiffs allege that the technology was used to harvest biometric information.

The accusations arrive as Meta faces separate criticism over how its artificial intelligence systems interact with information people have uploaded to Facebook and Instagram.

A Utah mother recently accused Meta’s AI technology of analyzing social media posts and surfacing invasive information concerning her young daughters.

Meta has also faced backlash after allowing users to generate images inspired by public Instagram accounts.

The company subsequently acknowledged that it had “missed the mark” with the feature.

The disputes highlight an increasingly significant question surrounding generative AI: Whether material people uploaded to social networks years before the current AI boom can subsequently be repurposed to train systems capable of extracting or generating considerably more information about them.

Meta Has Paid Billions Over Facial Recognition Cases

The latest allegations are particularly significant because Meta has already paid enormous settlements over previous disputes involving facial recognition and biometric information.

In 2020, the company agreed to settle an Illinois class action involving a separate facial recognition system for $650 million.

That litigation centered on Facebook’s use of facial recognition technology and Illinois’ biometric privacy protections.

Four years later, Meta agreed to pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle another lawsuit involving allegations that the company collected biometric information through facial recognition technology.

Meta did not admit wrongdoing as part of that settlement.

The latest lawsuit now brings the same fundamental privacy issue into the era of wearable artificial intelligence.

Unlike facial recognition operating exclusively within a social media website, smart glasses potentially place cameras and AI directly into ordinary face-to-face interactions.

Meta says the disputed NameTag feature has not been shipped and may never be.

But the plaintiffs’ case centers on a different question: whether Meta already crossed a legal line while developing the technology by turning photographs uploaded to Facebook and Instagram into the biometric data needed to make facial identification possible.

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