Meta's AI glasses have a growing reputation as a creepy technology. The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with. The move is seemingly a concession to consumer sentiment that the glasses aren't just fun, fashionable accessories, happily promoted by Kylie Jenner, but have serious implications for consumer privacy: They can be abused as surveillance devices. Whether that's training its AI on your images, enabling AI features using your personal content unless you opt out, or exploring ways to continuously record or use biometric facial recognition, Meta's vision of the future seems to always depend on collecting more of your personal data. In its blog post about the new camera safety feature, the company pats itself on the back, noting that 'no other kind of camera has done this and we're proud to lead the industry effort.' However, Meta also admits that...
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