Not Your Muse: How Meta Is Building the Most Complete Surveillance Architecture in Human History

In May 2025, someone at Meta wrote a memo about when to launch facial recognition on Ray-Ban smart glasses already in the hands of millions of people worldwide. The memo, first reported by the New York Times, stated that the company planned to launch during "a dynamic political environment" when civil society groups would be too distracted to respond.

Shortly afterwards, working facial recognition code was discovered in Meta's smart glasses. Within days of those findings becoming public, the code disappeared.

This piece is about what that sequence of events tells us about the surveillance architecture Meta has spent two decades building.

Full article available at Repro Uncensored.