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.

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.

If you are fortunate enough to have a ticket to an event at Madison Square Garden in New York – say, an NBA Finals game – one aspect of your visit will be having your face scanned by a facial ...

Utah law enforcement agencies are increasingly using facial recognition technology to identify criminal suspects, but state law limits its use to specific circu ...

We often hear about government misuse of face recognition technology (FRT) and how it can derail a person’s life through wrongful arrests and other harms. Despite mounting evidence, government ...

The World Economic Forum’s "Global Risks Report 2024" notes that foreign and domestic actors leveraging misinformation—often generated by AI—is among the most adverse threats the world will face in ...

Naver has launched Smartpass, a airport checkpoint system integrated with Naver Pay’s facial authentication service Facesign, ...

The Georgian government plans to expand the use of facial recognition cameras across the country and purchase an advanced ...

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, ...

A Fort Myers man who was arrested for a crime he couldn’t have committed is now suing multiple Florida law enforcement agencies, with the ACLU backing the case. The technology at the center of it ...

Robert Dillon has had his share of bar fights. When he wound up in jail, he detested sharing space with men who were there for committing crimes against children.