Meta’s glasses now stop recording if you cover the LED
Meta has updated its smart glasses so the camera stops when someone covers the recording light, the second such fix in two months, and is running an ad campaign explaining what the LED means. European regulators have said the problem is not the light but the absence of any lawful basis for filming bystanders.
Meta has updated its smart glasses so the camera shuts off when someone covers the recording light. Alex Himel, who runs Meta’s wearables division, posted the change on Threads on 27 August.
The loophole it closes was not sophisticated. Start a recording, then put a finger or a strip of tape over the LED.
It is the second fix of the summer. An earlier update disabled the camera when users drilled the LED out of the frame entirely. Both arrived after the glasses were already on faces.
Himel is not promising this is the last one....
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