Meta Addresses One Smart Glasses Privacy Problem, but Many Others Remain Unsolved
Meta's aware that its camera glasses are making people worried. A new update aims to prevent tampering with the recording light. But even more is needed.
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There's been a lot of social blowback against camera-enabled smart glasses this year, particularly those from Facebook-maker Meta. A post on Tuesday from the company addresses privacy concerns raised by me and others over the last year, and there's also a new mandatory firmware update for some Meta glasses that promises to deactivate the camera if any tampering of the small recording LED light is detected.
That's actually been a thing: There have been services that would mod and deactivate the recording light on the glasses, turning them into even more stealthy recording devices. Meta's post promises that this update will end the problem of recording people without their knowledge.
But Meta hasn't yet solved any of the other issues with...
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