Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.
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Well I’m not sure if I need a light to indicate that I need to avoid people wearing these glasses.
I already said that I’m going to refuse to sit down with people wearing these if they don’t put them away when I ask them to. If they are not going to respect my sense of privacy and that I do not want to have spyglasses pointed at my face running surveillance for one of the most corrupted conglomerates, then I’m going to leave.
They can all keep their “Cambridge Analytica Scandal Glasses” to themselves and their friends who do not know when they’re tasting boots.
And no, I don’t even use WhatsApp. Nothing Meta has been in my life for quite a while. And it’s a fundamental right that I shouldn’t be forced to participate.
remember when the google glasses came out, i saw a guy in public transport wearing it, was so silly. and yea people are going to try to watch porn on it.
In Japan, it’s a law that even software cameras have to make a loud “shutter” sound to guard against voyeuristic photography.
There’s a little cottage industry of third-party camera apps on the Japanese App Store that do little more than replace the default shutter sound with a custom sound… like silence.
If the mechanism exists for a app to switch it off, you can guarantee that Meta is using it all the time.
This guy doesn’t do it via software.
For his approach, Kim said he was “in essence, just disabling LED with drill.”
I’m going to mod my regular glasses with a couple of ultra-bright IR LEDs and hope that these cameras do a crappy job of filtering it out.
That’s a lot for a drop of black paint…
I guess taping the light is too hard?
Meta has designed the glasses to not work if someone covers up the LED with tape.
That’s a lot better than I’d give them credit for.
I have seen my colleague look at them. And he also looked at some custom made tape, with small holes in them. So just enough light gets in, so it won’t disable the recording function. But it still hides the light so others can’t see it…
The Snapchat(?) glasses would turn off if you covered the LED.
