One day after WIRED revealed Meta had embedded an unreleased facial recognition system called “NameTag” into the Meta AI app, Meta silently removed the code from its latest update but refused to explain why. NameTag was designed to convert faces captured by Meta’s smart glasses into biometric signatures and compare them against a locally stored database, with unrecognized faces being cropped, indexed and stored. Meta is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it unlawfully collects sensitive healthcare data through Meta Pixel, a tracking code found on 33 of the top 100 U.S. hospitals’ websites and in seven password-protected patient portals.…

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