Meta Pinky-Promises Its Smart Glasses Will Be Private Soon
Meta Pinky-Promises Its Smart Glasses Will Be Private Soon
Meta 承诺其智能眼镜即将实现隐私保护
Meta knows you probably have some privacy concerns about its smart glasses. At its annual Meta Connect event today in Menlo Park, California, the company announced plans to incorporate its siloed AI processing scheme known as Private Processing into its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The feature, designed for WhatsApp last year, allows the glasses’ AI assistant to get to know you and fulfill your requests without Meta accessing any of your data.
Meta 知道你可能对它的智能眼镜存有隐私顾虑。在今天于加州门洛帕克举行的年度 Meta Connect 大会上，该公司宣布计划将其被称为“私密处理”（Private Processing）的独立 AI 处理方案整合到 Ray-Ban Meta 智能眼镜中。这项去年为 WhatsApp 设计的功能，允许眼镜的 AI 助手在不让 Meta 访问任何用户数据的情况下，了解你的需求并完成任务。
“Most of the time, glasses are helping you see well, protecting your eyes and complementing your look, and that’s it,” Meta wrote in its press release, perhaps somewhat underselling the monumental historic significance of vision-correcting lenses as a technology. “But AI glasses have the capacity to provide superpowers like translating a conversation or summarizing notes or a conversation.” So the company says it sought to answer the question: “How do you build a hyper-personalized AI that knows your world deeply with enhanced privacy?”
“大多数时候，眼镜的作用就是帮你看得更清楚、保护眼睛并修饰外观，仅此而已，”Meta 在新闻稿中写道，这或许在某种程度上低估了视力矫正镜片作为一项技术的重大历史意义。“但 AI 眼镜有能力提供像翻译对话、总结笔记或谈话内容这样的‘超能力’。”因此，该公司表示，他们试图回答这样一个问题：“如何在增强隐私保护的同时，构建一个深度了解你世界的超个性化 AI？”
Private Processing is designed to enable AI cloud processing that protects data from all outside parties, including Meta itself. For its smart glasses, Private Processing could theoretically enable “private” chat interactions with Meta’s AI assistant as well as transcriptions and messages. However, the company has not yet said specifically which features it will support.
“私密处理”旨在实现一种能够保护数据免受所有外部方（包括 Meta 本身）访问的 AI 云处理方式。对于智能眼镜而言，该功能理论上可以实现与 Meta AI 助手的“私密”聊天互动，以及语音转录和消息处理。然而，该公司尚未明确说明具体将支持哪些功能。
Meta introduced Private Processing into WhatsApp and its Meta AI app last year. The service helped enable WhatsApp’s Incognito Chat. The goal was to let customers use AI services without undermining WhatsApp’s flagship end-to-end encrypted secure messaging feature.
Meta 去年将“私密处理”引入了 WhatsApp 和其 Meta AI 应用中。该服务助力实现了 WhatsApp 的“隐身聊天”（Incognito Chat）功能。其目标是让用户在使用 AI 服务的同时，不破坏 WhatsApp 标志性的端到端加密安全消息功能。
In a short conversation at Meta Connect, WIRED spoke with Meta’s Pritam Shah, director of engineering, on adding Private Processing to the glasses. “What we are doing right now is sharing our excitement about this enhanced privacy platform,” Shah says. “We have the platform ready. We have it working. It’s not just a white paper and a blog. The reason why we are announcing it right now, before putting more experiences on this platform, is so that we can start working with the security community and the privacy community and a third-party auditor.”
在 Meta Connect 的简短交流中，WIRED 与 Meta 工程总监 Pritam Shah 谈到了将“私密处理”添加到眼镜中的计划。“我们现在所做的是分享我们对这个增强型隐私平台的兴奋之情，”Shah 说，“平台已经准备就绪，并且可以运行。它不仅仅是一份白皮书或一篇博客文章。我们之所以现在宣布它，而不是等到在该平台上部署更多体验之后，是为了能够尽早与安全社区、隐私社区以及第三方审计机构展开合作。”
All of this comes at a moment of reckoning for Meta. The company has long been criticized for how it handles user privacy. This year alone, Meta has fielded months of controversy from people worried about its use of face-recognition technology and how its smart glasses could be used to arm sexual predators. Some people have dubbed them “pervert glasses,” confronted people wearing them, and even built apps like ZuckOff to detect Meta’s smart glasses nearby.
这一切发生之际，正是 Meta 面临清算的关键时刻。该公司长期以来因处理用户隐私的方式而受到批评。仅今年一年，Meta 就因人们对其人脸识别技术的使用，以及其智能眼镜可能被性掠夺者利用而引发了长达数月的争议。有些人将其称为“变态眼镜”，当面质问佩戴者，甚至开发了像 ZuckOff 这样的应用程序来检测附近的 Meta 智能眼镜。
More broadly, Meta has been dogged by years of security and privacy gaffes that have eroded user trust, and its products have often seemed to be better at surveilling users than helping them. But at Meta Connect, the company tried to position its smart glasses as a tool that isn’t creepy.
更广泛地说，Meta 多年来一直受到安全和隐私失误的困扰，这些失误侵蚀了用户信任，其产品往往看起来更擅长监视用户而非帮助用户。但在 Meta Connect 上，该公司试图将智能眼镜定位为一种“不令人毛骨悚然”的工具。
When the company launched its Muse AI agent earlier this month, it positioned the assistant as being geared toward security and privacy, specifically touting Muse’s cloud environment, known as Secure VM. It’s working on a version, dubbed Confidential VM, that will feature enhanced privacy guarantees, including a similar promise to make data inaccessible to Meta itself. Muse will also be coming to Meta’s glasses.
当该公司本月初推出 Muse AI 代理时，它将该助手定位为以安全和隐私为导向，特别推崇 Muse 的云环境，即“安全虚拟机”（Secure VM）。目前，他们正在开发一个名为“机密虚拟机”（Confidential VM）的版本，该版本将提供更强的隐私保障，包括承诺让数据对 Meta 本身不可见。Muse 也将登陆 Meta 的智能眼镜。
Private Processing isn’t available yet on Meta’s glasses, and Shah doesn’t have a timeline for when it will be added or which specific features will work with it. “These are examples,” he says. “These are not concrete features coming, but these are some examples. And there will be even more powerful examples.”
“私密处理”目前尚未在 Meta 眼镜上可用，Shah 也未给出该功能何时添加或哪些具体功能将支持它的时间表。“这些只是例子，”他说，“它们不是即将推出的具体功能，而是一些示例。未来还会有更强大的功能示例。”