{"id":265184,"date":"2026-06-05T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/meta-quietly-added-facial-recognition-code-to-smart-glasses-report\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:50:17","slug":"meta-quietly-added-facial-recognition-code-to-smart-glasses-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/meta-quietly-added-facial-recognition-code-to-smart-glasses-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta quietly added facial recognition code to smart glasses: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meta quietly added facial recognition code to smart glasses: report<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/05\/business\/meta-quietly-added-facial-recognition-code-to-smart-glasses-report\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-05 14:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: nypost.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech in its smart glasses, sparking concern from privacy watchdogs, according to a report.<\/p>\n

The tech, which Meta hasn\u2019t activated yet, came in an app that was downloaded to millions of phones, according to Wired, which analyzed the software.<\/p>\n

Known internally as \u201cNameTag,\u201d the feature has the capacity to identify people captured by the glasses\u2019 camera and alert the wearer when it recognizes someone, Wired reported.<\/p>\n

Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta has embedded facial-recognition technology for its smart glasses into an app downloaded to millions of phones. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n

The smart glasses already came under criticism for enabling creeps and wannabe pickup artists to record their unwanted advances toward unsuspecting women and posting the cringe-inducing content online.<\/p>\n

\u201cNameTag\u201d is embedded in Meta\u2019s AI companion app that\u2019s been downloaded over 50 million times and helps users use key features of its smart glasses, including Ray-Ban and Oakley models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The tech giant discreetly added the code to the AI app over multiple updates this year, according to Wired.<\/p>\n

If Meta opts to enable the tool, faces captured by the smart glasses will get turned into unique biometric signatures, known as faceprints. Meta\u2019s tech will then check each faceprint it encounters against faceprints already stored on the user\u2019s phone, and even send notifications if it recognizes a match.\u00a0New faceprints the glasses encounter would be indexed and saved, too.<\/p>\n

Meta Vice President of Communications Andy Stone emphasized customers can\u2019t actually turn on the facial recognition tech yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is more than shoddy reporting, it\u2019s intellectually dishonest. Pure advocacy-driven click bait,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharlie Gasparino has his finger on the pulse of where business, politics and finance…
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