Meta Smart Glasses Update Targets Privacy LED Tampering To Thwart Secret Recordings
Removing the privacy light from Meta's AI glasses turned into a small business, with modders openly advertising the work on Meta's own marketplace. Meta is now slamming that door shut with a software update that kills the camera entirely if the glasses detect their capture LED has been physically tampered with or destroyed.
That light sits on the front of every pair of the company's AI glasses and blinks whenever content is being captured, briefly for a photo and continuously for the length of a video. It has no off switch by design. The idea is simple enough. Anyone standing nearby should know when a wearer is recording, which is more notice than what's given by a smartphone or an action camera.
Meta already had one layer of defense in place. Beginning with the second generation of the glasses, covering the LED with something as low-tech as a strip of...
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