Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related (opens in new tab)

Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased facial recognition system from its smart glasses companion app on Friday, one day after WIRED reported that the software had been quietly embedded in an app installed on more than 50 million phones. The feature, which Meta internally called NameTag, was designed to convert faces captured by […] at The Next Web

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