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Meta Pinky Promises Its Smart Glasses Will Be Private Soon
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Meta knows you probably have some privacy concerns about its smart glasses.
Key facts
- In a short conversation at Meta Connect, WIRED spoke with Meta’s Pritam Shah, director of engineering, on adding Private Processing to the glasses
- At its annual Meta Connect event today in Menlo Park, California, the company announced plans to incorporate its siloed AI processing scheme known as Private Processing into its Ray-Ban Meta smart
- Private Processing is designed to enable AI cloud processing that protects data from all outside parties, including Meta itself
- For its smart glasses, Private Processing could theoretically enable "private" chat interactions with Meta's AI assistant as well as transcriptions and messages
Summary
At its annual Meta Connect event today in Menlo Park, California, the company announced plans to incorporate its siloed AI processing scheme known as Private Processing into its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. “Most of the time, glasses are helping you see well, protecting your eyes and complementing your look, and that’s it,” Meta wrote in its press release, perhaps somewhat underselling the monumental historic significance of vision-correcting lenses as a technology. Private Processing is designed to enable AI cloud processing that protects data from all outside parties, including Meta itself. Meta introduced Private Processing into WhatsApp and its Meta AI app last year.