{"id":992001,"date":"2026-02-14T09:17:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992001"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:04:50","slug":"meta-plans-to-add-facial-recognition-technology-to-its-smart-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/meta-plans-to-add-facial-recognition-technology-to-its-smart-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its smart glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find &#8220;the right balance&#8221; for a technology that raises privacy and legal concerns. <\/p>\n<p>Now it wants to bring facial recognition back. <\/p>\n<p>Meta, Facebook&#8217;s parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses, which it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, as soon as this year, according to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions. The feature, internally called &#8220;Name Tag,&#8221; would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta&#8217;s artificial intelligence assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Facebook shut down the facial recognition system for tagging people in photos on its social network, saying it wanted to find &#8220;the right balance&#8221; for a technology that raises privacy and legal concerns. Now it wants to bring facial recognition back. Meta, Facebook&#8217;s parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses, which it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, as soon as this year, according to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions. The feature, internally called &#8220;Name Tag,&#8221; would let wearers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}