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Meta’s Face Recognition Sneaks Back
Published: 4 June 2026 at 19:51 Europe/London
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Meta’s quietly reactivating face recognition tech in its smart glasses app, embedding “NameTag” into millions of phones — a move that echoes their 2021 retreat from the feature amid lawsuits and backlash. Now, with over 50 million app downloads, the code for facial detection, cropping, and biometric matching is already live, hinting at a “Connections” feature that could turn users into a distributed surveillance network. Privacy advocates warn this could empower stalkers and law enforcement to track people without consent — and experts say the system is nearly ready to roll.
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