Meta's smart glasses had a recording light for your safety. For months, covering it after you hit record kept it filming anyway.
Meta just shipped its second privacy patch in two months for the Ray-Ban glasses' capture light, this time closing the gap that let a wearer start recording, then cover the LED, undetected.
"Meta is shipping a firmware update so its AI smart glasses' camera stops functioning if the visible capture-LED indicator is covered while a recording is already in progress, after users found they could start a recording before covering the light and keep it running undetected." [SOURCE ↗]
THE CLAIM. Meta is patching its AI smart glasses so the camera stops working if the visible recording light is covered mid-recording, after users found they could start filming, then cover the light, and keep going unnoticed. THE CHECK: confirmed by Meta VP Alex Himel and corroborated across five independent outlets; the glasses already blocked starting a recording with the light covered, but never re-checked the light once recording began. THE TWIST: this is Meta's second privacy fix for the same glasses in under two months, July 2026 covered physical tampering with the LED, and a $60 third-party mod to disable the light entirely has been public since October 2025, on hardware that has sold more than 7 million units.
Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses ship with a small LED that lights up whenever the camera is recording, the built-in signal that's supposed to tell bystanders they're on camera. Per Meta VP of AR/Wearables Alex Himel, confirmed across Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Authority, MakeUseOf, and TheNextWeb, t
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