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Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’ (nypost.com)
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Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’::These stylish shades may look like a regular pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, but they're actually Meta's new Smart Glasses, complete with two tiny cameras and speakers implanted in the arms. The wearable tech was unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday at the 2023 Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, sparking a frenzy online.

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[–] 27 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Buddy, have you been on Aliexpress recently? It's trivial to wire tiny cameras all over your body if you really wanted.

    Not that it matters, I can point an 8K cinema camera at you in public, and you don't legally get a say.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Not that it matters, I can point an 8K cinema camera at you in public, and you don’t legally get a say.

    This isn't the case everywhere. Some places have laws with likeness rights if you try to use the footage in commercial productions.

    Two-party consent states also attach legal consequences to secret voice recordings.

    This is strictly legally speaking. People can and do violate the law.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Again you can record already without any led while "reading your messages" with your phone. Like I feel they did the expected and necessary.

    Plus is not like there isn't already available pens, USB chargers, watches or whatever they can come up secret cameras, like if the intention was to secretly record somebody they wouldn't go with this ones disabling the led.... plenty of better less suspicious alternatives.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years 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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