A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
    15·
    8 hours ago

    While Meta built in a small LED light in the front of its glasses to indicate when it’s recording a video, it can easily be covered by a small piece of tape, making it trivially easy to spy on strangers in public without their knowledge or consent. As Daily Dot points out, people are even selling stickers for this specific purpose.

    I was under the impression that covering the LED would prevent the camera function from working. I guess it doesn’t.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
      1·
      21 minutes ago

      making it trivially easy to spy on strangers in public without their knowledge or consent.

      Hang on. I don’t need Meta glasses to spy on strangers in public. I can creep perfectly fine in my mirrored sunglasses.