Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has entered an agreement with Rank One Computing, a firm whose facial recognition software is used by the U.S. Marshals Service and other government agencies and police departments, Wired reports. Wired's report finds Meta has a software license to test Rank One's face recognition and "liveness" detection, which verifies if a camera is viewing a mask or photo instead of a real face. Dormant remnants of Rank One's software were in a version of Meta's AI app, that recently shipped to customers, according to Wired. The app is the companion software to Meta's smart glasses. According to public filings, Rank One's client list also includes the U.S. Department of War — the Trump administration's preferred name for the Department of Defense, which is still pending Congressional approval — and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Rank One did not reply to a request for comment Monday. In response to an email request for comment, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce sent an identical statement to one a different Meta spokesperson emailed last week when Yahoo Tech inquired about a previous Wired story. That story looked at whether Meta was testing a facial recognition program called NameTag, which Wired found had been added to its Meta AI mobile app, but was not enabled. According to Wired, if activated the tech could create biometric "faceprints" for faces captured by the camera in Meta's smart glasses. Meta told the New York Times earlier this year it was still "thinking through" how it would use facial recognition technology. Meta deleted the dormant NameTag code from the app a day after Wired's report. After we pointed out to El-Kassaby Luce that the statements were identical, she emailed a second "correct, updated" statement: "What we've been saying for many months remains true