Meta Says It Will Disable The Camera On Its Glasses If You Tamper With The Recording LED
It also vows to take legal action against businesses advertising LED tampering services.
The launch of Meta's latest set of AI Glasses not only reignited, but also intensified public anger surrounding the devices. Critics have raised concerns about how the glasses are being used to creep on women and about privacy in general, especially since modders had already found a way to disable the LED lights indicating that the user is recording. Some modders had even turned removing Meta glasses' LED lights into a business. Now, Meta is attempting to assuage people's worries with an FAQ, where the company addresses the backlash against the devices.
In the FAQ, Meta explained that its glasses come with a white light called the "capture LED," which blinks briefly when the user takes a photo and continues blinking as long as they're recording. The capture LED, it wrote, has no off switch...
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