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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A new report suggests that Meta has placed unreleased face-recognition code for smart glasses in an app downloaded by ...

Wired Found Code For An Unreleased Facial Recognition Feature In Meta's AI App

Meta was previously reported to be exploring facial recognition for its smart glasses.

Florida man blames wrongful arrest on "error-prone" AI facial recognition

The wrongful arrest is just one of over a dozen in recent years linked to facial recognition technology.

Meta denied face scanning tech on AI smartglasses, and then silently wiped the evidence

Dormant face-recognition code reportedly appeared in Meta’s smart glasses app, then disappeared after scrutiny. That has put Meta’s AI eyewear plans back under the privacy spotlight.

Facial recognition tech discovered in Meta smart glasses app years after 2021 shutdown

Meta is facing fresh privacy questions after a report revealed that its smart glasses companion app contains dormant facial ...
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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." ...
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Face Detection and Recognition Techniques Analysis

Abstract: The face is one of the foremost widely physical attributes used in biometrics systems for human identification. Biometric authentication has gained a lot of interest and attention recently.