Meta's smart glasses were recording conversations without the wake phrase, company admits

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A hot potato: If there's one product that really doesn't need any more negative stories, it's Meta's smart glasses, but here we are. Some users discovered that the wearables were recording their voices without the wake phrase, an issue the company says has now been resolved.

A redditor recently wrote that they'd noticed something concerning with Meta's Ray-Ban glasses: they were capturing conversations when they were talking to other people despite the "Hey Meta" wake phrase not being used.

The conversations appeared in the Meta AI app as saved audio recordings and text transcripts. It's also noted that the "Respond without Hey Meta" setting was turned off, and that the white notification light was sometimes activated when the person was speaking normally.

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