{"id":230045,"date":"2026-06-09T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/one-day-after-discovery-meta-pulls-facial-recognition-code-from-its-smart-glasses\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:31:10","slug":"one-day-after-discovery-meta-pulls-facial-recognition-code-from-its-smart-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/one-day-after-discovery-meta-pulls-facial-recognition-code-from-its-smart-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections\/\">WIRED revealed<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/meta\/\">Meta<\/a> had quietly embedded an unreleased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/face-recognition\/\">face-recognition<\/a> system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version\u2019s code.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/best-meta-glasses\/\">smart glasses<\/a>, strips out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called NameTag. The version published the day of WIRED\u2019s report included several code libraries explicitly named for face recognition. Friday\u2019s release includes none of them.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Stone, Meta&#8217;s vice president of communications, told WIRED on Monday that the feature is purely exploratory, adding: \u201cNo final decision has been made on what to do here, if anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/one-day-after-discovery-meta-pulls-facial-recognition-code-from-its-smart-glasses\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/one-day-after-discovery-meta-pulls-facial-recognition-code-from-its-smart-glasses\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version\u2019s code. The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses, strips out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called NameTag. 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