Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones (opens in new tab) 45 articles covering this post

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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.

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