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By the time 50 million had installed Meta's smart-glasses app, few knew what sat unused inside it: dormant facial-recognition code that could spot a face, build a biometric signature, and flash 'person recognised' the instant it saw someone

New Deployments  scienceblog.com · July 18, 2026