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NEW: Days after WIRED revealed that Meta had embedded an unreleased facial-recognition system in software distributed to more than 50 million users, the company appears to have removed it.
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How interesting that Meta called @wired.com "dishonest" and then (quietly) removed the face-recognition system it had previously (also quietly) integrated into an app downloaded onto 50 million phones.
Dishonest!
Original story: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
NEW: A @wired.com analysis of Meta's app for its smart glasses found that the company has been adding code for face recognition since January, while saying that it is still "thinking through" whether to deploy it. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Apparently it’s more dishonest to write about facial-recognition code embedded in software distributed to tens of millions of people than it is to embed it there in the first place.
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.
NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users.
WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app.
w/ @dell.bsky.social
Absolutely insane story from @suryamattu.com.
Bloomberg found a little-known tax loophole exploited by the rich is costing the Treasury $48 billion a year…roughly enough to fund NASA twice over.
Meta says the feature hasn't shipped.
The code is nevertheless embedded in the Meta AI app distributed to tens of millions of phones. During testing, independent researcher Buchodi loaded Michel Foucault's faceprint into the app's local database and triggered the notification shown below.
Dhruv Mehrotra
Katie Drummond
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.
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.
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.
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.
I admit, if you ignore where it says ‘unreleased’ right below the headline (and on our homepage), then skip past the part where we say it required a code review, and ignore paragraphs 4, 8, 10, 12, 16, and all the adjectives that mean undisclosed, it does read like an active feature.
Guess you missed this.
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Tim Robinson, former chief executive officer of Addiction Recovery Care, was indicted in federal court Thursday on wire transmission and “monetary transaction in criminally derived property” in “unlawful activity” charges.
From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social:
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The indictment says he acted “in order to unlawfully enrich himself" and "shall forfeit to the United States any and all property, real or personal, which constitutes or is derived from proceeds trace...
