Meta says it will update its smart glasses with a new feature that disables the camera when it detects that someone tampered with the device's privacy LED light
The company is rolling out an update following increased scrutiny of its smart glasses. … Amid public backlash over its smart glasses …
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Discussion
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@joannastern
Joanna Stern
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@jessenowlin I actually asked about this. From newsletter: “Meta told us that this update was in the works before our story was published. But I also suspect our reporting—and the attention it received—helped accelerate its release, especially with the company's new generation of…
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@joannastern
Joanna Stern
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News! Meta is rolling out a mandatory software update for its Ray-Ban Meta glasses that directly addresses our reporting from last month. If the glasses detect that the recording LED has been physically tampered with or drilled out, the camera will be disabled. [image]
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@jessenowlin
@jessenowlin
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What were they waiting for? Took @JoannaStern doing an investigation to fix this??
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r/RayBanStories
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Meta's glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light
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r/technology
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Meta's glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light
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@chiefeosh
@chiefeosh
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The only thing that will prevent people from being a creep with Meta glasses is declaring open season on everybody wearing them.
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@metanewsroom
@metanewsroom
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We know for AI glasses to succeed they have to be trusted — not just by the people wearing them, but by the people around them, too. Here are your top questions answered. https://about.fb.com/...
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@imlunahey
Luna
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watch this new update get bypassed in a few days..
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@i2cjak
@i2cjak
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idk i bet you could just stack some tiny diodes in there with the same Vf as this thing and totally prevent this idk tho [image]
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@timmyd124
@timmyd124
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this will be an interesting lawsuit
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@wi_john
John Williams
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Meta - “executives are currently planning not to activate the LED when the super-sensing features are being used, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. That would make it harder for bystanders to know when they were being recorded” https://www.ft.com/...
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@sarahoconnorft.ft.com
Sarah O'Connor
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Why buy pervert-glasses when you can buy SUPER-pervert glasses?! www.ft.com/content/ac28... [image]
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
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Pervert glasses that record sometimes are the incremental step to pervert glasses that record all the time.
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r/SmartGlasses
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Meta's glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light — update is rolling out following increased scrutiny of its smartglasses
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r/privacy
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Reframing smart glasses as ‘pervert glasses’
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r/TwoXChromosomes
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Reframing smart glasses as ‘pervert glasses’
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@kashana.blacksky.app
@kashana.blacksky.app
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At this point, I imagine working at meta to be one long meeting about what exactly they can do for the sex pest community [embedded post]
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@chiweethedog
Roy Drones Jr
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“Only creeps would remove the light” owning these glasses PERIOD makes you a creep