Meta secretly embedded facial recognition code – internally called NameTag – into the Meta AI app used to pair its Ray-Ban smart glasses, shipping it to over 50 million phones without telling anyone.

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 ...

This week, Meta removed facial recognition code from its Meta AI companion app after reporting by WIRED revealed that the company had already embedded substantial portions of an unreleased facial ...

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 ...

Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses — and top Meta executives are fuming. The report made clear that NameTag isn ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meta is facing renewed scrutiny after a report revealed that the company quietly embedded face-recognition technology into software linked to its smart glasses ecosystem, potentially laying the ...

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 ...

It’s no secret Meta has been exploring facial recognition technology for its platforms, like Facebook. It’s even cost the company millions in settlements. But a new Wired report details how Meta ...

Code for a facial recognition feature that can run on Meta smart glasses is buried in the company's Meta AI app, according to a new report from Wired. While not currently enabled, accessible to ...

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 ...