Meta's Glasses Will Turn Off the Camera If You Tamper With the Privacy Light (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/08/1750234/metas-glasses-will-turn-off-the-camera-if-you-tamper-with-the-privacy-light
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/962514/meta-privacy-light-tampering-smart-glasses-update
"Meta has previously tried to discourage tampering with the LED light. For example, starting with its second generation glasses, blocking the light with tape or other objects will trigger a prompt asking users to uncover the recording light. However, many modders have found various workarounds for that particular measure."
[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-questions-answered/
[2] https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/962514/meta-privacy-light-tampering-smart-glasses-update
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/RaybanMeta/comments/1o68vla/has_anyone_successfully_drilled_out_the_capture/
I'm sure. (Score:2)
It certainly is good that any of the properties of an LED that you can measure cheaply and reliably enough to get away with using in consumer electronics are 100% distinct from those of other components or precisely the same LED covered with opaque epoxy.
Just detecting that there's now an open circuit where a diode should be would be fairly trivial and cover the cruder drilling cases; but this will be cosmetic at best against any moderately motivated tampering.
Define 'tamper" (Score:2)
Painting or taping over? Does it actually require you to look at the mirror every 2 minutes?
Google Glass (Score:3)
I've heard others critiquing the modern tech industry talking about how the tech industry has no real ideas, and Mark Zuckerberg is the king of that. This is yet another case. First was VR and the Metaverse, which turns out no one wanted. Then it was rapid catch up to the LLM craze, which after massive spend they are at best an also-ran and at worst barely playing. And now it's A/R glasses, which Google already tried and it failed not due to technology, but because no one asked for that.
I don't think it's fair to say that the tech industry as a whole has no new ideas, but Zuckerberg in particular is guilty of that. No one asked for A/R glasses when Google Glass came out, and I can't imagine anything has changed, and looking at all the creepy stuff people are doing with their on-their-face-cameras-that-record-and-post-everything-they-see, this seems like a lot of bad ideas with no real good solutions to show for it.
Re: (Score:3)
I feel like Zuckerberg must personally dispise facebook, because its his only real success and is just a sad place where old people endless discuss politics and share shitty hardwarming ai memes. You can kinda tell when you log in to fb - its been just squeezed for ad cash and enshittified to the max, they don't care about it at all, they want to move on, but they can't because they suck.
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> ... the tech industry has no real ideas ... First was VR and the Metaverse, which turns out no one wanted.
About 20 million units sold. And that doesn't count the other brands of VR goggles.
> Then it was rapid catch up to the LLM craze, which after massive spend they are at best an also-ran and at worst barely playing.
Do you know how many companies make screwdrivers? And they've been around for AGES. Pet peeve of mine is when people bash a person/company/product because it only managed to obtain 1/10th the market share that Google had - most small businesses would be massively overwhelmed by that! Support small businesses! (and yes, I know Meta is not a small business, but that furthers this point)
> And now it's A/R glasses, which Google already tried and it failed not due to technology, but because no one asked for that.
For one, people don't have to ask for a t
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I was play GW2 so i was like ok ask met ai what is the cheapest way to get research notes.
after 10 or so infrances it would say somehting go ot the gw and nope not there. nope cant do it nope totaly wrong. then its make a green axe. there has never been a green ax in gw2.
then i said you 0 for 10 i have tried what ou said and it was all wrong i even asked you to make sure.
Sorry i made things up.
Nah (Score:2)
I mean I'm not going to be hanging out with anyone wearing smart glasses anyway. That's an automatic trip to my permanent shit list.
If everyone starts wearing them then that doesn't make it ok, fuck everyone in that case. Just because foot-binding was popular in China 200 years ago didn't make it ok either.
Sure it will! Until it won't! (Score:2)
At least they hope this empty feature will get their product accepted.
Their only problem is the biggest market for this product will end up harming many and helping few.
The real question (Score:2)
Do these glasses have face punch detection? How about user pamts shitting detection?
Next ... (Score:2)
people tamper with the tamper protection.
Meta tracks you even without an account (Score:2)
BUT Meta also tracks people who have never had an account with them, on the off chance "they might later opt-in". See [1]https://cyberguy.com/security/... [cyberguy.com]
So the original poster's question is legitimate, especially for those who have never opted-in to any Meta product.
[1] https://cyberguy.com/security/how-facebook-secretly-collects-your-information-even-if-you-havent-signed-up/