Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military - Schneier on Security Schneier on Security Menu Blog Newsletter Books Essays News Talks Academic About Me Search Powered by DuckDuckGo Blog Essays Whole site Subscribe Home Blog Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military We know that ICE wants to deploy eyeglasses with facial recognition that can identify people in real time. Turns out Meta is prototyping the feature with a Pentagon supplier. (Alternate news story.) Tags: face recognition , homeland security , identification , military , police , privacy Posted on June 26, 2026 at 12:40 PM • 6 Comments Comments no fonzanoons • June 26, 2026 2:34 PM Surely all those photos of us in FB’s possession in which we are tagged will not be used to train this tool? Not really annonymous • June 26, 2026 3:45 PM Protesters may want to consider using makeup for dazzle. There are people experimenting with this. Metastasize • June 26, 2026 5:35 PM Glad I never gave Facebook my data, though they probably still have a file of whatever my stupid cousins uploaded about me even though I’ve told them not to. Mark’s Raybans are clearly meant to intimidate and attack privacy and civil rights. By zucking up to the fascists and going down the ‘glasshole’ road with ICE, seems like Meta has basically become another terrorist organization. Makes me wonder if Zuckerberg has ever heard of the Judenrat? Clive Robinson • June 26, 2026 7:20 PM @ Metastasize, With regards, “Makes me wonder if Zuckerberg has ever heard of the Judenrat?” Based on what we know of him, the question should be “has he heard” but, “Would he care?” For those who don’t know the Juden-Rat meaning Jewish Council was based on an idea that goes back to the early Middle Ages in Germany, Austria and Russia and areas such as what we now call Belerus and Ukraine. It’s also still in only a minor change or two a system of used in the Russian armed forces. The judenrat was an authoritarian system that actually carried on after WWII with the US setting up Rhine meadow Camps, https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/rheinwiesenlager.html That were actually worse than earlier concentration camps (an idea the British used in South Africa, Rhodesia to remove from the civilian population those seen as problematical. The problem with any authoritarian system of control is it is not just expensive in manpower it is also dangerous for those applying control. In that the guards are easy targets for resistance organisation. So the system was to select “representatives” from the indigenous population to do the bidding of just a small number of authoritarian officers. The worse you made the camp conditions, the easier it was to find people who would willingly do horrific things to their own people for an extra piece of bread or similar. From the authoritarians position these council members and those selected to enforce rules with violence were easily expendable because they were easily replaceable. But we actually know that authoritarian officers were often not needed or not to be found. In Russia it’s known that vilage councils actually organised markets and the like to sell body parts for cannibalism. In the early 1930’s certain political elements wanted to remove what were seen as undesirables in the large cities in the west of Russia and deport them to areas of wilderness where they were supposed to become agricultural labour. Without knowledge, seed, food, clothes, shelter, or tools and with many of the deportees being criminal it all went bad in just a few weeks with something like 2/3 of deportees dead or missing assumed dead, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazino_tragedy It makes horrific reading and shows how easily certain self interested elements in society will turn things into a living hell for all. Rontea • June 27, 2026 9:14 AM The normalization of pervasive biometric surveillance is accelerating at a pace that should alarm anyone concerned with civil liberties. Meta’s collaboration with a Pentagon supplier to prototype facial recognition for police use illustrates how private and state interests converge to expand the reach of identification technologies. Framed as innovation, this integration of military-grade tools into everyday platforms quietly erodes the spaces where anonymity and dissent can exist. Before such systems are fully embedded in public life, we should demand transparency, accountability, and a public reckoning with the consequences for privacy, autonomy, and the social fabric itself. Shockwave Rider • June 28, 2026 11:16 AM This is not innovation; this is domestication. Subscribe to comments on this entry Leave a comment Cancel reply Blog moderation policy Login Name Email URL: Remember personal info? 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