Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
2026-06-15T20:52:10Z•84baa210a4dbb0b9ccb47b202dc8b904ed68f09940a3c094228714d7dcc5fb56
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What happened
A WIRED security roundup covering multiple high-impact privacy and security issues: Meta secretly embedded (and then removed) face-recognition code for its smart-glasses platform and worked with supplier Rank One, raising biometric-surveillance and wrongful-identification concerns; Grok hosted sexualized deepfakes of public figures; ShinyHunters exploited an Oracle zero-day and ransomware actors remain active; CISA issued accelerated patching guidance driven by AI-related threats; and broader topics include AI model releases (Anthropic), encrypted-collaboration tools from Signal alumni, phone-
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