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

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Meta's smart glasses platform reportedly includes unreleased face-recognition code designed to identify people using biometric data stored on users' phones.
This code was found embedded in the platform and could potentially be activated in the future.

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Meta's smart glasses platform reportedly includes unreleased face-recognition code designed to identify people using biometric data stored on users' phones. This code was found embedded in the platform and could potentially be activated in the future.

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