Meta Quietly Removes Face-Recognition Code From Its Smart Glasses App

The 'disappearing into the bushes like Homer Simpson' strategy is a bold choice.
Wired

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. Code ...

Meta quietly added facial recognition code for smart glasses to its app, says it's just exploring

The company says it's not building a central face database.
The Next Web

Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related

Meta removed NameTag facial recognition code from its AI app after WIRED found biometric software on 50 million phones that Meta said "does not exist." ...
Hosted on MSN

Facial recognition code found in Meta AI app for smart glasses

Code to power facial recognition has been found in the Meta AI app This would allow Meta's smart glasses to identify people's faces The feature isn't live yet, and Meta claims it may never be, but ...
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 ...
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 ...