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Lance Ulanoff

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

Meta Essilor Luxottica AI Glasses.
  • Meta is again updating its smart glasses software to stop people from circumventing the privacy controls
  • The camera won't film if you start filming and then block the LED
  • There's also a marketing campaign designed to educate consumers

Sentiment 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 users who are trying to circumvent the glasses' built-in protections for nefarious filming, Meta is introducing a new slipstream technology update. And it's coming to Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses as we speak.

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