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Meta's Hidden Face Scanner: Surveillance Shipped Before Consent You don't need a leaked memo or a whistleblower to spot where the surveillance industry is headed. You just need to know where to look. Researchers found code for an unreleased facial recognition feature buried in Meta's AI app, sitting dormant among the live features most users interact with daily. Meanwhile, on the hardware side, the company has already shipped facial recognition capability on its Ray-Ban smart glasses. This isn't a conspiracy theory playing out in congressional testimony years from now—it's happening in plain code, right now, before anyone outside Meta decided…