Meta Faces Backlash Over Unreleased Face-Scan Feature in Smart Glasses

Journalists uncovered code in Meta’s AI app suggesting an unreleased feature called NameTag that would turn faces seen by Meta’s smart glasses into biometric faceprints and compare them to a phone-stored database; Meta says the feature is exploratory and not shipped, and denies plans for a central face database, while executives slammed Wired’s reporting as misleading. The story sits amid ongoing privacy debates and past biometric-data settlements involving Meta.