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

WIRED reported that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face‑recognition system in the Meta AI companion app for its smart glasses—code designed to identify people using biometric data stored on users’ phones and pushed to millions of devices. After the story published, Meta removed the face‑recognition code from the latest app build but declined to explain why or whether the feature will return. The discovery raises serious privacy and surveillance concerns around mass biometric identification, lack of transparency and consent, and potential misuse or exposure of sensitive biometric data.