Metas smart glasses might soon sport facial recognition and the code to
power this dystopian feature is already present in the Meta AI app on your phone

Date:
Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:30:00 +0000

Description:
The Meta AI app has quietly had facial recognition code added to it, which could one day allow the company's smart glasses to identify people.

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recognition has been found in the Meta AI app This would allow Meta's smart glasses to identify people's faces The feature isn't live yet, and Meta
claims it may never be, but reactions to it are largely negative Metas smart glasses like the Ray-Ban Meta and the Oakley Meta Vanguard have always been concerning from a privacy perspective, given their ability to photograph and film whoever the wearer happens to be looking at. But they just got even more troubling, as theres evidence that they might soon get facial recognition.

Wired (via Mashable ) has found that the company has quietly been adding
code related to facial recognition to the Meta AI app over multiple updates this year. Its investigation found references to three AI models, one which would detect faces, another that would crop them, and one that'd encode them into biometric data. And while the feature isnt live, two security
researchers who reviewed Wireds findings claimed that its almost ready to launch, if and when Meta chooses to. Latest Videos From Watch full video
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In a response, a Meta spokesperson told Wired that "nothing has shipped to consumers and no final decision has been made on what to do here, if
anything. If we do decide to roll something out, we will take a thoughtful approach and do so with full transparency. One decision we can be clear about
we are not building a central face database." A privacy nightmare in the making? Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses (Image credit: Oakley) Still, the fact that Meta is already adding relevant code to its app certainly suggests
a feature along these lines may well launch. At which point, not only do you need to worry about being photographed or filmed by peoples glasses, but that they could identify you just by looking at you. You may like Meta urged to cancel its controversial rumored Name Tag feature Meta is rumored to be working on an AI pendant and new smart glasses I love my Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses but this summer Im giving up on them

Responses to the news on Reddit are largely negative, but also largely unsurprised, given that this is Meta were talking about a company that hasnt got the best track record for respecting peoples privacy.

One Reddit user commented is anyone surprised by this, really?, with others saying well, that tracks, I miss privacy, and should be illegal, among other negative comments. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox
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And while Meta does at least provide some measure of privacy with its smart glasses such as displaying a light when theyre recording or taking photos modders can already disable that light , so its easy to imagine that any precautions put in place for facial recognition could also be disabled or got around. Today's best smart glasses deals Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer (Gen 2) 330.96 View See all prices Ray-Ban Meta Skyler (Gen 2) 379 View See all prices Ray-Ban Meta Headliner (Gen 2) 379 319 View See all prices Oakley Meta Vanguard 499 395.87 View See all prices XREAL One Pro 679 548.99 View See all prices Xreal One 449 View See all prices We check over 250 million products every day for the best prices Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button!

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