{"id":287573,"date":"2026-07-09T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/meta-developing-always-on-glasses-with-less-active-privacy-light\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:30:12","slug":"meta-developing-always-on-glasses-with-less-active-privacy-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/meta-developing-always-on-glasses-with-less-active-privacy-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta developing always-on glasses with less-active privacy light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/07\/09\/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-light-always-on\/\">Meta developing always-on glasses with less-active privacy light<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/07\/09\/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-light-always-on\/\">https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/07\/09\/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-light-always-on\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-09 09:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"9to5google.com\">9to5google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a case of hilarious timing \u2013 you know, in a dystopian kind of way \u2013 a new report details Meta\u2019s forthcoming \u201csuper sensing\u201d smart glasses that would have microphones and cameras that are constantly active, right as the company has fixed a glaring privacy problem with existing models.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-721167\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses have developed a reputation in the past year of being used for invasive and nefarious means, as bad actors were modifying the glasses so that their built-in privacy light would be disabled and no longer activate when the camera is active.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A mandatory update is now rolling out which addresses this problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it comes right as a new report details Meta\u2019s plans for \u201csuper sensing\u201d smart glasses that have microphones and a camera that are constantly on. Financial Times details the new model, which has been previously reported on, which would apparently not turn on a privacy light when the camera is active. <\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report says:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, executives are currently planning not to activate the LED when the super-sensing features are being used, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. That would make it harder for bystanders to know when they were being recorded, potentially intensifying the privacy concerns surrounding the technology. Those plans could still change, however, several people said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s also mentioned that these super-sensing features might even come to existing models at some point. The \u201calways-on\u201d nature wouldn\u2019t necessarily be full video, but pictures taken \u201cevery few seconds.\u201d Based on the report, the privacy light wouldn\u2019t be used for always-on captures rather than active captures and recordings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a policy paper in 2025 referenced in the report, Meta said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the LED blinked for extended periods at a time (like whenever there was an AI interaction), people could stop noticing it \u2014 reducing the awareness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/07\/09\/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-light-always-on\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta developing always-on glasses with less-active privacy light https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/07\/09\/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-light-always-on\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-09 09:45:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/meta-glasses-lineup.webp?resize=1200%2C628&quality=82&strip=all&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287575,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287573\/revisions\/287575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}