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Jason England

Google AI just proved Meta can't fix smart glasses privacy — it's time for 'peeping tom' laws to enter the digital age

Ray-Ban Meta Smart glasses.

Meta just released an emergency update to stop creeps from disabling the recording light on its smart glasses. That’s great. But the real problem isn’t just Meta — it’s that when I asked Google AI how to bypass this new security feature, its AI gave me a cheerful step-by-step DIY guide to becoming a creep.

All I asked was a simple theoretical question, and Google’s algorithm practically handed me a soldering iron and a ski mask.

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