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Meta glasses face recognition rollout
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
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Justin Hendrix
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dell cameron
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Katie Drummond
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“We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/s…”
“While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) w…”
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dell cameron: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Justin Hendrix: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
dell cameron: While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them local…
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