A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used ...

The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell ...

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 ...

When police arrested Robert Dillon in 2023 for allegedly trying to "lure a child" away from a McDonald's in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, he told them he was more than 300 miles away at the time of the ...

Meta has ripped face-recognition code from its AI app after the tech press found NameTag lurking inside the software. Wired reported last Thursday that Meta had embedded large chunks of an unreleased ...

Apple isn’t using nearly as much Gemini in its models as you might have thought, and OpenAI filed for its IPO while Perplexity targets 2028 for its public offering. Starring Jason Howell and Tom ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.