Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light

What happened

According to The Verge’s linked source, Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light, Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses’ privacy LED light. The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling […] Even so, the privacy LED light is still hard to see. It’s on in this photo. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses’ privacy LED light. The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling into the LED light . Meta has previously tried to discourage tampering with the LED light. For example, starting w

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Source

Primary source: Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light via The Verge. VINI cites and links the source; it does not reproduce the publisher’s full article text without rights clearance.