Meta has a fresh update to stop people from turning Meta Smart Glasses into pervert glasses — and the updates will keep coming

Meta is again updating its smart glasses software to stop people from circumventing the privacy controls The camera won't film if you start filming and then block the LED There's also a marketing campaign that's designed to educate consumers Sentiment around smart glasses that can capture photos and video is quickly turning, and not in the direction chief smart glasses purveyor Meta would prefer.

Now, to stop the admittedly small percentage of users who are trying to circumvent the glasses' built-in protections for nefarious filming, Meta is introducing a new slipstream technology update that's coming to Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses as we speak.

In a post on Threads, Meta's VP of Wearables Alex Himel announced a software update that will make it impossible for wearers to film or capture pictures if the glasses detect that you're covering the LED.

That LED was always designed to signal to others not wearing the glasses that you were filming them, but hackers soon figured out how to disable it .

Meta quickly made it so the system could detect that.

Now, it seems they've noticed another workaround that this update will quickly squelch.

If you, say, start filming and then somehow cover the LED to hide the signal that you're doing so, the system will stop recording.

Here's how Himel explained it in his post : "The camera won’t start recording if the LED is blocked, but some people try to bypass this by starting a recording and then covering it up.

A fix for this is starting to roll out - the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording." Perhaps more importantly, Himel is aware that hackers probably won't give up trying to jailbreak the wearable cameras and promises.

"We’re going to keep rolling out updates like this to make sure the capture LED can reliably alert bystanders when photos or videos are being captured for someone’s gallery." The second update is perhaps less impactful in that it's mostly a marketing campaign designed to "educate' or convince people that these glasses have a place in our world.

Meta is already putting up billboards claiming the glasses are "Designed for everyone, not just the people wearing them," and in smaller text below that: "The camera lets you capture the moment.

The light lets everyone around you know when you do." There's also some social media reminding folks that "The glasses announce themselves," which is another reference to the integrated LED light. (Image credit: Meta) It's an admirable effort, though it seems that people are not just concerned with creepers who are surreptitiously recording.

They are growing increasingly uncomfortable with people potentially walking into any space and filming.