Meta continues to crack down on malicious users disabling the privacy LED on its Ray-Ban smart glasses, this time focusing on the most obvious loophole out there.
Detailed by Meta’s VP of AR, Alex Himel, on Threads, a new update is “coming” to Ray-Ban smart glasses and Meta Smart Glasses to further block users from disabling the privacy LED.
Previously, Meta targeted users who were modifying the hardware to disable the LED, but it left the door open to an easier loophole – starting the recording and then covering the LED. While the glasses would block a recording from starting when the LED was covered, this loophole allowed users to cover the LED after the recording had already started. This new update stops the camera from recording if the light is covered.
Himel explains:
We have an update coming to increase the reliability of the capture LED on our AI glasses. The camera won’t start recording if the LED is blocked, but some people try to bypass this by starting a recording and then covering it up. A fix for this is starting to roll out – the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording.
