Meta has a fresh update to stop people from turning Meta Smart Glasses into pervert glasses — and the updates will keep coming

Meta launches new update to try and fight the ‘pervert glasses’ backlash

Instagram and Facebook owner’s smart eyewear has received sustained criticism for helping enable creepy behaviour and non-consensual filming

Meta has a fresh update to stop people from turning Meta Smart Glasses into pervert glasses — and the updates will keep coming

Meta is again updating its smart glasses software to stop people from circumventing the privacy controlsThe camera won't film if you start filming and then block the LEDThere's also a marketing campaign that's designed to educate consumersSentiment around smart glasses that can capture photos and video is quickly turning, and not in the direction chief smart glasses purveyor Meta would prefer. Now, to stop the admittedly small percentage of user…

Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign

Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that "the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording." The company's line of smart glasses already disables their built-in cameras if someone covers the LED capture light, which blinks to alert …

Meta fixes distressingly obvious smart glasses recording LED loophole

TL;DR Meta’s smart glasses attempt to detect when their recording LED is blocked or tampered with, and will refuse to start filming. It turns out this check was only performed when recordings were initiated, and users could just start filming and cover the LED afterwards. Meta is currently rolling out a fix to correct this behavior. Retro gamers may remember the old PlayStation 1 swap trick: The system would only check disc integrity when first…

Meta Working on "Kill Switch" in Face of Overwhelming Disgust With Its "Pervert Glasses"

Much like Google’s infamous Google Glass smart glasses, Meta’s camera-equipped AI Glasses have turned into a widely derided gadget associated with horrendous public behavior and unwanted surveillance. The invasive spectacles, which are designed to effectively be indistinguishable from an ordinary pair of Ray Ban sunglasses, have been misused by creeps, pickup artists, “manfluencers,” juvenile pranksters, and even high school bullies. All that aw…

Meta is closing a loophole that allowed people to record with their smart glasses' light covered

It's the second update in less than two months to address privacy concerns.