Meta Furious After Wired Exposes Unreleased Facial Recognition Feature in Smart Glasses

Executive Briefing

• Reveals Meta quietly developed 'NameTag,' a facial recognition feature embedded in its AI smart glasses app code
• Warns feature could convert wearers into a 'distributed surveillance machine,' per EFF technologist who reviewed the code
• Notes Meta executives called Wired's reporting 'dishonest' and 'advocacy-driven clickbait' despite confirmed code existence
• Highlights Meta's troubled biometric history, including a $1.4B Texas settlement and scrapped Facebook facial tagging
• Signals growing urgency as 75 organizations signed an ACLU letter calling NameTag 'a red line society must not cross'