{"id":3180,"date":"2026-07-08T03:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/metas-glasses-will-turn-off-the-camera-if-you-tamper-with-the-privacy-light\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:55:19","slug":"metas-glasses-will-turn-off-the-camera-if-you-tamper-with-the-privacy-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/metas-glasses-will-turn-off-the-camera-if-you-tamper-with-the-privacy-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A person wearing Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses on a busy street.\" data-caption=\"Even so, the privacy LED light is still hard to see. It\u2019s on in this photo. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25012301\/236834_Ray_Ban_Meta_Smart_Glasses_AKrales_0879.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tEven so, the privacy LED light is still hard to see. It\u2019s on in this photo. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/961707\/smart-glasses-ai-wearables-meta-surveillance-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/881744\/meta-smart-glasses-facial-recognition-rayban-privacy-wearables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backlash<\/a> over its smart glasses, <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2026\/07\/metas-ai-glasses-your-questions-answered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta announced<\/a> that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses&rsquo; privacy LED light. The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/942769\/people-are-paying-to-get-rid-of-the-recording-light-on-their-meta-ray-bans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">physically drilling into the LED light<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta has previously tried to discourage tampering with the LED light. For example, starting with its second generation glasses, blocking the light with tape or other objects will trigger a prompt asking users to uncover the recording light. However, many modders have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/RaybanMeta\/comments\/1ixfwmi\/the_only_solution_to_remove_the_led_on_rayban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/how-to-disable-meta-rayban-led-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">various workarounds<\/a> for tha \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/962514\/meta-privacy-light-tampering-smart-glasses-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even so, the privacy LED light is still hard to see. It\u2019s on in this photo. | Photo by Amelia [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}