Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated
pavel_lishin · hn · 2026-10-16
Meta has confirmed that its smart glasses were recording even when not activated by the user, per Mashable. The admission undermines the assumption that recording indicators and explicit activation give bystanders reliable notice, a concrete privacy failure for wearable AI hardware.
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