Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
CNET

Meta's Smart Glasses Are Testing Facial Recognition Software Used by Police and the Military

Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that Meta was developing software for its smart glasses to identify people, presumably using data from its social networks, such as Facebook and ...

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

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

Meta denied face scanning tech on AI smartglasses, and then silently wiped the evidence

Dormant face-recognition code reportedly appeared in Meta’s smart glasses app, then disappeared after scrutiny. That has put Meta’s AI eyewear plans back under the privacy spotlight.The Latest Tech ...
Digital Trends

Meta accused of preparing facial recognition features for AI smart glasses

Meta is facing renewed scrutiny after a report revealed that the company quietly embedded face-recognition technology into software linked to its smart glasses ecosystem, potentially laying the ...

Some local police have access to an ICE facial recognition app

A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used ...
Dark Reading

US Cracks Down on Anthropic AI Models Amid Abuse Concerns

Nation-state threat actors and cybercriminals are growing more sophisticated in how they use foundational AI models in their offensive campaigns, reportedly worrying the US government enough to ban ...
IT-Online

Data Scientist (Python, Machine Learning, LLMs) – (In Office) CPT – Western Cape Cape Town

ENVIRONMENT: An Investment company is searching for a talented and driven Data Scientist to join their innovative and growing team based in Durbanville, Cape Town. This is an exciting opportunity to ...
GitHub

Fingerprint Recognition using Siamese Network

The purpose of this project is to train a One-Short Learning Siasmese Network to make it recognise the fingerprints of a user. This project has two implementations one using Tensorflow and Keras, ...
siliconcanals

Qualcomm is about to spend $4B on a startup that makes no chips — because Nvidia's real moat was never the silicon, and Cristiano Amon finally figured out the shortcut

Qualcomm is in advanced talks to buy Modular Inc. Qualcomm is about to spend $4 billion on a company that does not make a single chip. For a business whose name is ...
Opinion

Meta quietly removes face-recognition code from its smart glasses app

Only a day after a dormant bit of code that seemed to be a facial recognition algorithm was discovered in a companion app for its smart glasses, Meta released an update which removed that code, ...