Local media and a digital rights organization are sounding the alarm in San Francisco.

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. Code ...

If you are fortunate enough to have a ticket to an event at Madison Square Garden in New York – say, an NBA Finals game – one aspect of your visit will be having your face scanned by a facial ...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech in its smart glasses, sparking concern from privacy watchdogs, according to a report. The tech, which Meta hasn’t activated yet, came in ...

The effort is creating fierce debate over whether the safety benefits of artificial intelligence are worth the privacy costs.

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back. The most recent version of Meta ...

Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and security technology for over a dozen years, explaining the latest features, privacy tricks, and top recommendations. With degrees ...

Meta is facing renewed scrutiny after a report revealed that the company quietly embedded face-recognition technology into software linked to its smart glasses ecosystem, potentially laying the ...

Amazon was sued Monday by a Virginia man over allegations that facial recognition software in the company’s Ring doorbell cameras collected and stored images of his face without his consent. The ...

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 ...