Meta Closes Smart Glasses Privacy Loophole With New Camera-Killing Update

Meta is rolling out an update to its line of smart glasses that will disable the camera if the device’s capture LED has been tampered with or destroyed.Since the rollout of Meta’s second-gen Ray-Ban Glasses in 2024, physically covering the white capture LED on any of the company’s current smart glasses shuts off the onboard camera, something the company did to curb casual misuse.
Before Meta’s mandatory v26 update—which is rolling out now to all Meta Ray-Ban, Meta