Meta Ray-Ban Name Tag facial recognition quietly removed after researcher demo

Meta quietly removed facial recognition code from Ray-Ban glasses after a researcher unlocked it with a single debug command, proving the feature called 'Name Tag' was never truly off, just hidden. Meta's VP of Communications responded by calling the reporting 'intellectually dishonest' and 'pure advocacy-driven click bait,' which is a strange defense for code that demonstrably existed and worked. Meanwhile, people are physically drilling off the privacy LED to enable secret recording, and the bill meant to address that, H.B. 2603, leaves brightness, size, and placement of the required indicator undefined. Meta removed the code. The behavior it enabled is still very much a market.