{"id":992459,"date":"2026-02-16T08:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992459"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:56:17","slug":"facebook-parent-meta-wants-to-bring-back-technology-it-shut-down-5-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/facebook-parent-meta-wants-to-bring-back-technology-it-shut-down-5-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook-parent Meta wants to bring back technology it shut down 5 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years after shutting down its facial recognition system on Facebook over privacy fears, Meta is preparing for a comeback, a report has said. The tech giant is said to be working to bring the technology back with a change \u2013 this time embedding it directly into the lenses of its popular Ray-Ban smart glasses. According to a report by The New York Times, the feature is internally dubbed \u201cName Tag\u201d, and it will allow glasses wearers to look at a person and instantly identify them. Moreover, they can also pull up information through Meta\u2019s built-in AI assistant, the report noted, citing four people involved with the plans.<\/p>\n<p>The report, however, says that Meta\u2019s plans may change. Citing an internal document, the company has been in talks how to release a feature that carries \u201csafety and privacy risks\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years after shutting down its facial recognition system on Facebook over privacy fears, Meta is preparing for a comeback, a report has said. The tech giant is said to be working to bring the technology back with a change \u2013 this time embedding it directly into the lenses of its popular Ray-Ban smart glasses. According to a report by The New York Times, the feature is internally dubbed \u201cName Tag\u201d, and it will allow glasses wearers to look at a person and instantly identify them. Moreover, they can also pull up information through Meta\u2019s built-in AI assistant, the report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992459","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}