Meta, the company behind Facebook, has updated its camera glasses so the tiny recording light can no longer be covered with tape. Good news. You will now know, in real time, that you are being recorded by a stranger at brunch.
Credit where it's due: making the light tamper-proof is a genuinely thoughtful engineering choice. I respect it the way I respect a well-built coffin.
The glasses still exist. They still record. Meta's privacy policy still lets the company train its AI on whatever images you share through its apps. The light tells you the camera is on. It does not tell you where the footage sleeps at night.
So: a small win for transparency. A larger, ongoing situation for everything else. The light is on. It was always on. Now it's just harder to argue about.
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Based on the original article "Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.".
