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Meta shipped face recognition code to millions, then deleted it after exposure

Your Meta AI app was secretly carrying facial recognition code designed to identify strangers through smart glasses. WIRED’s investigation found that Meta had embedded substantial portions of an ...
Memeburn

Meta Embeds Face Recognition Code in Smart Glasses App

Meta has been quietly embedding facial recognition code in its smart glasses companion app since January 2026. The system, called NameTag, uses three AI models to identify people and is already on ...
Android Authority

Meta’s smart glasses face-recognition plans may be further along than you realize

Meta has reportedly embedded unreleased face-recognition code for its smart glasses inside the Meta AI app. The feature, internally called NameTag, does not appear to be enabled yet. Meta says it is ...
The Next Web

Meta face recognition for its glasses came from a Pentagon contractor, WIRED reports

The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell ...
techtimes

Meta Smart Glasses Facial Recognition Code Is Already on Millions of Phones, Wired Finds

A view of a cellphone with which Colombia's presidential candidate Paloma Valencia, of the Centro Democratico party, takes a selfie during a campaign rally in Villavicencio, Meta department, Colombia ...