Lawmakers in Pennsylvania want new smart glasses rules A proposed bill would mandate that glasses display when they are recording video or audio This comes after reports that modders are disabling this feature on Meta Ray-Bans for a price Last week, I covered reports of, let’s face it, creeps who h… …
… Sign in to your Android Police account Meta has quietly acknowledged the privacy concerns regarding its smart glasses by i ssuing an update that disables the camera when the privacy LED has been tampered with or destroyed. …
Meta’s AI glasses have a growing reputation as a creepy technology . The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with. …
… Beginning with the second generation of the glasses, covering the LED with something as low-tech as a strip of tape automatically disables the camera until the light is cleared. …
… When asked about privacy concerns with cameras on smart glasses and people circumventing the LED, Bosworth says Meta Glasses use the same tamper-detection technology that’s in the Ray-Ban Gen 2 glasses, which can block camera access if it detects that someone’s messed with it. …
… On a standard pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, the right side houses the camera lens, while the left side features a prominent capture LED. Whenever you record a video or go live, that light pulses to signal to the people around you that they’re on camera. …
… This is one of the scariest things about smart glasses: The cameras are tiny, their privacy LEDs are weak, and the design is incredibly discreet. That invisibility, that these recording tools look like a normal pair of glasses, is the point. …
… What do you think of smart glasses having facial recognition? 82 votes WIRED says it reviewed code in Meta’s live companion app and found references to a feature internally called NameTag, which appears designed to identify people seen by the glasses’ camera. …
… Tampering with the glasses is not illegal, though it violates Meta’s terms of service and may void the warranty. Stern said people are starting to fight back with apps that scan Bluetooth for nearby camera glasses. …
… Meta says it doesn't train its AI on video and images you capture to your camera roll. More recently, there have been reports that Meta is considering adding facial recognition to its glasses. …