SMRTR TechJul 15, 2026Wired

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

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Meta built a face-recognition feature called NameTag for its Ray-Ban smart glasses app, deploying functional code to tens of millions of phones before quietly removing it after WIRED reported on it. Despite a Meta executive describing NameTag in detail on a podcast, the company insists the feature does not exist.

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