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ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you

400 points · 351 comments · choult

cubefox · 1789989783 · focus · HN ↗
From <a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-questions-answered/" rel="nofollow">https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-ques...
> Can’t people just cover up or disable the LED?
> The camera is disabled when people try to do this. Beginning with our second generation of glasses, the camera is automatically disabled if we detect that the capture LED has been blocked. No photos or videos can be taken until we detect that the light is unblocked.
> Since the introduction of this safeguard, we’ve seen some people go beyond using tape to sophisticated efforts to modify or destroy the capture LED. We are continuously improving our ability to detect tampering, and now we’re updating the glasses to disable the camera if they detect the LED was physically tampered with or destroyed. No other kind of camera has done this and we’re proud to lead the industry forward.
1. magicalist · 1789992975 · focus · HN ↗
  > Since the introduction of this safeguard, we’ve seen some people go beyond using tape to sophisticated efforts to modify or destroy the capture LED. We are continuously improving our ability to detect tampering, and now we’re updating the glasses to disable the camera if they detect the LED was physically tampered with or destroyed. No other kind of camera has done this and we’re proud to lead the industry forward.
  Yes it's true people have figured out how to disable the safeguard, but we all agree the important thing as we try to sell millions more of these is that we tried, right?
  1. solenoid0937 · 1789996469 · focus · HN ↗
    Seeing these reactionary Reddit-like takes on HN sucks. No, it's not easy for the average person to disable the camera on these glasses. They do continuously make it harder to do so. At this point anyone interested in spy glasses is better off buying one of the many other glasses with cameras in it.
    knowaveragejoe · 1790001899 · focus · HN ↗
    People would generally oppose all such devices if they had a real picture of what's going on.
    bennyelv · 1790063936 · focus · HN ↗
    What is going on that I don’t know about?

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