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

Meta deleted a hidden facial-recognition system from Meta AI, the companion app for its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, one day after WIRED found the dormant code in June 2026. The system, internally called Name Tag, was built to turn face photos into biometric identifiers stored on the device and match them against new scans to flag a recognized person to the wearer. Meta shipped a June 5 update stripping the code, the machine-learning models, and the alert system, and declined to say why the code was there or whether the feature returns.