Meta Removes Code It Added to Support Facial Recognition Feature That ‘Does Not Exist’ ⇥ wired.com

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron, Wired:

One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code.

Once again, the pugilistic but ultimately cowardly Meta communications team had no comment of substance for what is, despite their public protest, a worrisome feature that is clearly moving through development.