Meta has rolled out a software update that stops its Ray-Ban smart glasses from recording the moment the capture LED is covered mid-recording, closing a workaround that let wearers start filming and then hide the light. It's the second privacy patch to the glasses in under two months, arriving as EU regulators keep questioning whether that light was ever real consent.
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Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have one privacy signal: a small LED that blinks when the camera is recording. Cover it, the idea goes, and the camera should stop. Except until this week, that wasn't quite true. The old software only checked the LED once, right when recording started. Cover it a second later, with a finger or a piece of tape, and filming continued with zero visible warning. Meta just shipped a fix that checks continuously instead. It's the second privacy patch to these glasses in under two months, after an earlier update that killed the camera if the LED was physically drilled out. European regulators aren't satisfied either way: France's privacy watchdog says a light was never real consent to begin with.