The civil rights organization and 75 other groups published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to “immediately halt and publicly disavow” plans for a reported facial recognition feature on its Ray-Ban smart glasses. …
… And as my colleague Victoria Song recently wrote, most smart glasses still don’t make sense, not to mention the problem that there are growing privacy concerns about smart glasses. …
… Image: Me, probably for the foreseeable future because more of these glasses are on the horizon. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/268494 smart glasses overview AKrales 0398.jpg?quality=90&strip=all I’d wager most people would be okay with temporarily sacrificing some… …
… All these smart glasses and nothing to do
… These aren’t “Google smart glasses” or “Warby Parker smart glasses,” these are “Google/Samsung/Warby Parker-or-Gentle Monster smart glasses.” Good luck keeping it straight. …
… To use the Find X9 Ultra, you must agree to: Google Terms of Service Google Play Terms of Service Google Privacy Policy included in ToS Install apps and updates: “You agree this device may also automatically download and install updates and apps from Google, your operator, and your device’s manufac… …
… Photography by Dominic Preston / The Verge --- Agree to Continue: Honor Magic V6 Every smart device now requires you to agree to a series of terms and conditions before you can use it — contracts that no one actually reads. …
… It doesn’t require an internet connection, although it can be connected, and it doesn’t stream audio or video to the cloud, a purposeful design decision to protect privacy and improve latency. …
… That’s the killer app for those glasses. Meta has talked about building that app.But that’s a privacy nightmare, just a straightforward privacy nightmare, to do that. …