Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
2026-06-09T08:52:11Z•d650ec584d87d623bcfd7b03541868f93456af7a1d85ebb84703903f99c438b5
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What happened
WIRED reported that Meta silently added—and then removed after publication—unreleased face-recognition code in its Meta AI companion app for smart glasses that would identify people using biometric data stored on users’ phones, raising substantial privacy and surveillance concerns. The feed also highlights multiple high-impact security developments: TeamPCP’s large-scale software supply-chain poisoning on GitHub; a new browser-based SSD side-channel technique (FROST) that lets websites infer drive activity via JavaScript; AI-enabled abuse including hackers using Meta’s AI bots to compromise IG
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- wired_security
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- d650ec584d87d623bcfd7b03541868f93456af7a1d85ebb84703903f99c438b5
- Enrichment time
- 2026-06-09T08:52:11Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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