Mark Zuckerberg Desires Name Tags To Make Data Feel Human

Zuckerberg asserts his desire over civil society.

Kashmir Hill, Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac reporting for the New York Times on the coming addition of facial recognition technology to Meta AI glasses as a feature called “Name Tag”:

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs.

And:

Meta is exploring who should be recognizable through the technology, two of the people said. Possible options include recognizing people a user knows because they are connected on a Meta platform, and identifying people whom the user may not know but who have a public account on a Meta site like Instagram.

The one time I met Mark Zuckerberg he asked the room of reporters the first question, seeking their thoughts on the Quest Pro we all just tried. I gathered from that interaction Zuckerberg is always gathering data to inform his decisions and, in fact, that is likely your only value to him.

“What’s your name?”

It’s a very human question, isn’t it? Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth has so far removed him from normal humans that he wastes his time and money re-engineering our most basic interactions.