Meta Shipped Face Recognition Code to Millions, Deleted It in a Day

Meta embedded a substantial chunk of an unreleased facial recognition system called NameTag into the companion app for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, an app already sitting on tens of millions of phones, then scrubbed nearly all of it within 24 hours of WIRED reporting its existence. We broke down exactly what the code did and why deleting it changes far less than it sounds: https://s.vp.net/USBpY