‘Mark’

I think Meta is a perversely interesting company which means this week I watched, as I do every year, its Connect presentation. It is once again a glimpse into what Meta aspires toward — Apple-quality hardware matched with Google-quality services — compared to what it actually does: track users’ digital and physical activities to sell ads. Said hardware this year was interesting. In addition to a whole smattering of eyeglasses that look like slightly chunkier versions of classic glasses styles, there are now models without a camera.1 In an interview with Joanna Stern, Mark Zuckerberg avoided answering a question about whether they were created in response to overall privacy concerns about cameras on faces by turning it into a question about whether they were developed in the past two months to address recent criticism. But questions about the ethics of wearable cameras in normal-looking glasses have been around since they were released three years ago. Meta also showed off a much…