Meta Hit with Class Action Lawsuit Over Smart Glasses Facial Recognition Plans
By Editor • September 14, 2026 • 1 min read
Meta is facing legal challenges even before launching its highly anticipated smart glasses, as a class action lawsuit has been initiated by a group of parents and their children from Illinois and California. The suit centers around a leaked feature known as "NameTag," which allegedly involves dormant facial recognition technology embedded within Meta's AI app.
The lawsuit asserts that the NameTag feature is intended to create biometric signatures that would match against faceprints stored in a database on a user's device. Although the software has been found on millions of devices, it has yet to be activated. The plaintiffs argue that the data for these faceprints could potentially be sourced from popular platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, raising concerns about privacy and consent.
In addition to the concerns surrounding the smart glasses, the lawsuit also targets Meta’s recent AI developments, including the Emu model, which has been trained using data from social media platforms. The plaintiffs claim that this data was collected without proper authorization from users. This is not the first time Meta has encountered legal issues related to facial recognition; in 2020, Facebook reached a $650 million settlement over the unauthorized collection of users' faceprints.
Source: gizmodo.com
