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

WIRED reported that Meta's app for Ray-Ban smart glasses contained dormant facial recognition code, raising transparency and privacy concerns. The investigation described "NameTag," designed to detect ...
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 stripped NameTag facial recognition code from its AI app one day after WIRED exposed it on 50 million phones. Meta says no decision has been made. Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased ...
Engadget

Meta quietly removes face-recognition code from its smart glasses app

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 ...
Wired

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back. The most recent version of Meta ...
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 ...
New York Post

Meta quietly added facial recognition to smart glasses, sparking major privacy concerns: report

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech in its smart glasses, sparking concern from privacy watchdogs, according to a report. The tech, which Meta hasn’t activated yet, came in ...
san

Meta adds facial recognition code for its smart glasses without telling anyone

Meta’s AI app now includes facial recognition code for its smart glasses, despite the company’s previous assurances that it had not decided whether to introduce the technology. An analysis of the ...
Lifehacker

Meta Quietly Added Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses

According to a report from Wired, Meta has been quietly installing facial recognition in its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses for the last few months. Internally called "NameTag", the ...
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 ...
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 ...
techtimes

Claude Code Dynamic Workflows: Scripts Replace Context Windows, Ultracode Automates Orchestration

Anthropic shipped Claude Code Dynamic Workflows as a research preview on May 28, 2026, and the feature is architecturally more consequential than the Opus 4.8 benchmarks that dominated most coverage ...
Biometric Companies

Biometric face morph attack detection breakthroughs offer border security hope

Morphing attack detection (MAD) was a major theme of the European Association for Biometrics’ (EAB’s) workshop on live enrollment last year, and as AI makes sophisticated biometric spoof attacks more ...