Analysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased "NameTag" face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year (Wired)
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On-device face recognition quietly wired into AI glasses is the real privacy breakpoint — persistent, ubiquitous identity resolution in physical space. If your product operates in public environments, assume face and object ID will be ambient and design governance, UX, and data flows on the assumption that nothing in a store, venue, or street is anonymous anymore.
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