Only a day after a dormant bit of code that seemed to be a facial recognition algorithm was discovered in a companion app for its smart glasses, Meta released an update which removed that code, Wired ...

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 ...

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app. Meta is testing ...

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying officers treated a flawed face-recognition match as a near-certain ID.

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 ...