Meta is closing a loophole that allowed people to record with their

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 […]. Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign.

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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 others that you’re recording or taking a picture. Some wearers found that they can bypass these restrictions by covering the LED light after they started recording. This latest fix comes a little over a month after Meta updated its glasses to turn off its camera when wearers physically tamper with the capture light.

It's the second update in less than two months to address privacy concerns. Meta is closing a loophole that allowed people to record with their smart glasses' light covered.

Big Tech Meta 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. The company is rolling out a software update that closes one loophole that allowed people to bypass the LED by covering it up while a recording was in progress, according to Alex Himel, Meta's VP of AR.

The seemingly simple loophole is one that has been repeatedly highlighted online in tutorials about how to bypass the light. "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," Himel wrote in a post on Threads.

"A fix for this is starting to roll out – the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording." The change is the second time in less than two months that Meta has issued a software update to address privacy concerns and unwanted recording. The company announced last month that it would disable the cameras on glasses if it detected that people had physically damaged the recording light.

Meta has been trying to get ahead of a growing backlash against the product that has been fueled, in part, by people using the devices to covertly film and harass others in public. Instagram has also banned the accounts of some of the people behind these videos.

Image: Meta Related Meta glasses are a workplace menace Meta is royally screwing up its smart glasses rollout “We’re going to keep rolling out updates like this to make sure the capture LED can reliably alert bystanders when photos or videos are being captured for someone’s gallery,” Himel writes.