Comment on Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’

Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You seriously think it wouldn’t be trivial to disable the LED?

  And by the time you notice the LED you’ve already been filmed.

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  • lloram239@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The LED detects when it is blocked and the device refuses to function until it is unblocked. So no, working around that won’t be trivial, at least until somebody has found a workaround.

    If Meta wanted to be really throughout with this, they could also keep record of how often there is an issue with the LED and brick the device and close your account if they detect tempering. The whole “trivial to disable” doesn’t fly in a world of closed ecosystem, locked down hardware and accounts requiring a real ID.

    Also you can get spy cameras for $5 from Aliexpress anyway, so why even bother hacking this. Snapchat has some video recording glasses too if one needs an alternative.

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The led is a simple transistor that happens to glow, just replace it

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  • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It took me a 3 second google search to find that it doesn’t work with the LED covered.

    By the time you notice someone’s phone is out you’ve already been filmed. That’s status quo these days, it isn’t any creepier than every single person walking around with a camera in their pocket.

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  • LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ray ban have had them for years. I hate meta but it’s not just them.

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    • tehmics@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      To be fair that was also a Facebook partnership. This is less news and more product revision

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• TheTetrapod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly. The pearl-clutching over smart glasses is so misplaced. You’re already being recorded constantly in public, what’s the big deal?

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  • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Y’all use the same vocab religiously, I’m just gonna start training models and feeding it to bots to auto respond to y’all lmfao

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• orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I imagine it wouldn’t take long until someone finds a way to disable that LED.

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  • livedeified@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    looks like a sharpie would do the trick

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    • Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Doesn’t work while covered, there’s a sensor in the light

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      • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Spoof the measured sensor value

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