Meta addresses ‘pervert glasses’ reputation with a privacy fix and a new marketing campaign

Meta is updating its AI-powered astute glasses to adjacent a loophole that allowed wearers to support signaling aft covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta's vice president of augmented reality, writes successful a station connected Threads that "the camera volition present halt moving if the airy is covered during a recording."

The company's enactment of astute glasses already disables their built-in cameras if idiosyncratic covers the LED seizure light, which blinks to alert others that you're signaling oregon taking a picture. However, immoderate wearers recovered that they tin bypass these restrictions by covering the LED airy after they started recording. This latest hole comes a l …

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