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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

2026-06-08 · WIRED

Meta quietly embedded face-recognition code in its smart glasses companion app, got caught by WIRED, and then silently nuked the feature without explanation. Nothing says 'we totally weren't doing anything sketchy' like deleting evidence and refusing to comment. The classic tech giant playbook: ship it, get exposed, pretend it never happened.

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