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 ...

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 recognition ...

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 ...

Last week, Wired reported that Meta quietly pushed code for a yet-to-be-released face-recognition system supposedly designed for the company’s smart glasses. Now the publication reports that Meta has ...

Meta is facing fresh privacy questions after a report revealed that its smart glasses companion app contains dormant facial recognition technology. The feature, reportedly called “NameTag,” isn’t ...

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In neighborhoods like Fabian’s in Brooklyn, predatory landlords are nothing new. But new technology could accelerate their aggressive angling to push out rent-stabilized tenants and gentrify BIPOC ...

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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 ...

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 ...